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(Eagle News) — People who have either no symptoms of the novel coronavirus or have not developed them yet seem to be able to spread the virus, according to China’s Director of the National Health Commission Ma Xiaowei. Based on new information and research on the latest coronavirus strain, the 2019-nCoV, Ma said that the spread of the epidemic is “relatively fast” and there are cases, even those from outside China, where patients have […]
(Videographics showing how the new coronavirus can be transmitted. Courtesy Agence France Presse) (Eagle News) — The 2019 novel coronavirus or 2019 nCOV can easily spread from human to human, and the transmission can be via “aerosol droplets in the air released by sneezing or coughing” or by touching a surface which has the virus.” In this videographics provided by Agence France Presse, it shows that the virus is “most contagious when there […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Chinese football team Wuhan Zall were allowed to enter Spain on Wednesday for a training camp near Malaga, despite fears of spreading the coronavirus. The virus broke out in December in Wuhan in central China and has already killed 132 people and infected 5,974 in the country’s mainland. Yet Wuhan Zall, who play in the Chinese Super League, have been given permission to land in southern Spain, where they have […]
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AFP) — The United Arab Emirates announced Wednesday its first case of the new coronavirus, in a family from Wuhan, in what is thought to be the first confirmed case in the Middle East. “The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention announced a case of the new coronavirus affecting people from one family coming from the city of Wuhan in China,” the state news agency WAM reported, without saying how many […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Scientists in Australia have successfully replicated the deadly Wuhan coronavirus, in what they said would be a “game changer” in the fight against a deadly epidemic which has stricken thousands. The Doherty Institute in Melbourne announced Wednesday that it had grown the novel coronavirus in cell culture from a patient sample, the first time the virus has been replicated outside China. “Having the real virus means we now have the […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Health on Wednesday, Jan. 29, said there was still no confirmed case of the novel coronavirus in the country, noting that four of the 27 people the agency had said were closely being monitored had already been discharged. Of the 23 persons now under investigation, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said 17 were in the National Capital Region, one in Western Visayas, one in Mimaropa, one in Eastern Visayas, […]
by Sébastien RICCI Agence France Presse WUHAN, China (AFP) — Hundreds of Americans and Japanese escaped the quarantined Chinese city at the center of a viral epidemic aboard charter flights on Wednesday, as the death toll soared to 132 and confirmed infections neared 6,000. The scale of the deepening crisis was emphasized with the new infection number on the Chinese mainland exceeding that of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2002-03. SARS, […]
WUHAN, China (AFP) — The number of confirmed cases in the new virus outbreak in China reached 5,974 on Wednesday, overtaking the number of people infected in the mainland by the SARS epidemic in 2002-3. China’s national health commission reported more than 1,400 confirmed new cases on Wednesday, as the death toll rose to 132. There were 5,327 confirmed cases in mainland China during the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemic. That outbreak killed more than […]
A German man who contracted the novel strain of coronavirus was infected by a colleague visiting from China, officials said on Tuesday, in what appeared to be the first human-to-human transmission in Europe. Other confirmed cases in Europe of the viral outbreak have so far involved patients who had recently been to China. In this instance, the 33-year-old German attended a training session held by a visiting Chinese colleague on January 21 at the […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japanese authorities said Tuesday a man with no recent travel to China has contracted the novel strain of coronavirus — apparently after driving tourists visiting from Wuhan, where a deadly outbreak began. The man in his sixties from Nara in western Japan drove two groups of Wuhan tourists earlier in January and was hospitalised on Saturday with flu-like symptoms, the health ministry said. Health Minister Katsunobu Kato said the country […]
(Eagle News) — The government on Tuesday, Jan. 28, said Filipinos who would like to return to the Philippines from China will have to undergo a 14-day quarantine period upon their arrival. Health Secretary Francisco Duque III made the announcement, as the government expressed willingness to work with China for the repatriation of Filipino nationals in the seat of the novel coronavirus outbreak. “We are now arranging one place where we can quarantine all of […]
(Eagle News) – There are at least 27 persons in the country who have been considered “patients under investigation” (PUIs) for the novel coronavirus infection, and three of them so far have been discharged from hospitals after results showed they are negative of the disease, the Department of Health said. This brings to 24 the current suspected novel coronavirus infections in the country which are still awaiting confirmatory test results from either the Reasearch […]
