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(Eagle News) — The Bureau of Immigration will temporarily stop issuing tourist visas on arrival to Chinese nationals, the Bureau of Immigration said on Tuesday, Jan. 28. In a statement, Immigration commissioner Jaime Morente said they were “taking this proactive measure to slow down travel, and possibly help prevent the entry of the 2019-nCov.” He was referring to the novel coronavirus that was first identified in Wuhan, China in December 2018. Over 100 deaths have […]
by Leo RAMIREZ Agence France Presse WUHAN, China (AFP) — The United States and other nations raced to get their citizens out of the locked-down Chinese city at ground-zero of a virus epidemic on Tuesday, as the death toll surged to 106 and the number of confirmed infections doubled to over 4,500. The deadly virus, which experts believe emanated from a wild animal market in the city of Wuhan last month, has triggered a […]
(Eagle News)–The Philippines will not evacuate Filipinos from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus, pending China’s decision on the matter, Senator Bong Go has said. According to Go, “hinihintay ng (Department of Foreign Affairs) officials ano ang magiging desisyon ng China dahil sila ang ‘di pumayag na sunduin ang 30-50 Filipinos [roon] na gusto na umuwi.” Go clarified that he wanted the Filipinos to come home because “kawawa [rin] sila dun parang naka-lockdown […]
by Leo RAMIREZ Agence France Presse WUHAN, China (AFP) — China’s capital on Monday recorded its first death from a deadly coronavirus as it struggles to contain a rapidly spreading disease that has sparked global alarm, with countries scrambling to evacuate their citizens from the epicentre of the epidemic. The fatality in Beijing raises the death toll from the new virus to 82, with more than 2,700 people infected across the nation. Cases have […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Health authorities in Germany’s southern Bavarian region have confirmed the country’s first case of the deadly coronavirus spreading in China. The virus, which can cause a pneumonia-like acute respiratory infection, has in a matter of weeks killed more than 80 people and infected some 2,740 in China, while cases have been identified in more than a dozen other countries. “A man in the Starnberg region has been infected with the new […]
by Leo RAMIREZ Agence France Presse WUHAN, China (AFP) — The rapid spread of a deadly virus across China caused growing global alarm on Monday, with Germany advising citizens to avoid the country, Mongolia closing its border and other nations racing to evacuate citizens trapped at the epicentre of the epidemic. The coronavirus has now killed 81 people and infected more than 2,700 across China, with cases found in around a dozen countries as […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The World Health Organization on Monday said the global risk from the deadly virus in China was “high”, admitting an error in its previous reports that said it was “moderate”. The UN health body said in a situation report published late Sunday that the risk was “very high in China, high at the regional level and high at the global level.” In a footnote, the WHO said there had been […]
WUHAN, China (AFP) — Premier Li Keqiang on Monday became the most senior Chinese leader to visit Wuhan since the city was struck by the outbreak of a deadly virus that has spread across the country and sparked global concern. The virus toll has spiked to 80 dead despite a huge lockdown of Wuhan and Hubei province, home to the majority of fatalities from a disease that has infected more than 2,700 people nationwide so […]
WUHAN, China (AFP) — China said on Monday that the death toll from a deadly viral outbreak spiked to 80 as the hard-hit epicenter province of Hubei suffered 24 new fatalities, while total confirmed cases nationwide rose sharply to 2,744. While there were no new deaths confirmed outside of Hubei, the national tally of verified infections rose by 769, around half of them in Hubei, the National Health Commission said. It said 461 of those […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Canada’s first “presumptive” case of a new coronavirus has been detected in a man who returned to Toronto from the Chinese city where the virus first appeared, health officials announced Saturday. “We have the first presumptive case confirmed of this novel coronavirus here” in Toronto, Eileen de Villa, head of the city’s public health agency, said at a press conference. The patient, a man in his 50s, had been staying […]
Shanghai reports first death from virus infection WUHAN, China (AFP) — The death toll from a virus in China has risen to 56 and the number of people infected across the country is nearing 2,000, authorities said Sunday. Fifteen more people have died and at least 688 new cases of the coronavirus have now been confirmed, according to the National Health Commission. Among the new deaths, 13 were in Hubei, the province at the […]
(Eagle News) – Malaysia confirmed its first three cases of coronavirus infection on Saturday, Jan. 25, saying the patients were all Chinese nationals coming from Wuhan, China. The cases were also related to the first coronavirus case in Singapore, a 66-year old man from Wuhan. With this confirmation, the countries in Southeast Asia with positive coronavirus infections are the following: Malaysia, SIngapore, Thailand and Vietnam. The Chinese nationals who were found to be positive […]
