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Back in September I wrote a column about the coming flu season. I warned about the very serious threat of a new virus emerging and causing a pandemic. It wasn’t a case of if, I said, but when. So will Covid-19, the coronavirus infection that has been devastating China, turn out to be a pandemic … Read more
Baby born to coronavirus patient in China tests NEGATIVE for the killer disease – despite fears it can be passed on in the womb Medical workers were pictured ferrying the baby from a hospital in China A child was diagnosed in early February, 30 hours after its birth in Wuhan Fears have been rising over … Read more
Back in September I wrote a column about the coming flu season. I warned about the very serious threat of a new virus emerging and causing a pandemic. It wasn’t a case of if, I said, but when. So will Covid-19, the coronavirus infection that has been devastating China, turn out to be a pandemic … Read more
The coronavirus sweeping through China and spreading across the world could be about to get an official name, scientists say. Although the subject of news articles, social media posts and political discussions throughout the past month, the virus has not yet got an approved name. It has been dubbed 2019-nCoV, which means it is a … Read more
Saudi Arabia has become the 16th nation to ban travellers from coronavirus-hit China entering the country – piling pressure on the UK to ramp up its security. The kingdom has barred its citizens from going to mainland China and suggested it would tear up the passports of anyone who defied the ban. Saudi Arabia’s immigration department … Read more
The last two flights that the US State Department chartered to evacuate Americans from the coronavirus outbreak’s epicenter in Wuhan, China, have landed in Texas and California after one passenger on each showed symptoms of coronavirus, forcing the planes to be held temporarily. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sources told Fox that there … Read more
China on Wednesday reported 97 more coronavirus deaths, pushing the total dead on the mainland to 1,113, even as the country remains largely closed down to prevent the spread of the disease. The National Health Commission on Wednesday said 2,015 new cases had been reported over the last 24 hours, declining for a second day … Read more
Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. More than 1,380 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and more than 64,400 have been infected in at least 28 countries and regions. But experts predict the true number of people … Read more
Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. More than 1,380 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and more than 64,400 have been infected in at least 28 countries and regions. But experts predict the true number of people … Read more
Health Secretary Matt Hancock this week declared the coronavirus outbreak a ‘serious and imminent’ threat to the British public. More than 42,000 people have contracted the new strain — now named as COVID-19 — which originated in Wuhan, a city of 11 million people in central China, and there have been more than 1,000 deaths. … Read more