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Italy’s spiralling coronavirus outbreak has started to spill across the continent, with a tourist from the infection-plagued Lombardy region testing positive on Tenerife. The patient, understood to be a doctor, had travelled to the Spanish holiday island from the Italian region, which has been locked down following a cluster of cases. Seven people have died … Read more
Tom Cruise has been forced to hole up in a luxury hotel in Venice after the filming of Mission: Impossible 7 was halted after an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy, DailyMail.com has learned. The actor had been due to begin filming in some of the most picturesque and popular parts of the floating city but … Read more
An unwell coach driver sparked a coronavirus panic at a French bus station today after arriving with virus symptoms from Italy, where six people have now died in Europe’s first major outbreak. French police impounded the coach in Lyon today after it arrived from Milan with the driver reportedly suffering from a bad cough. Passengers were … Read more
Experts have warned the world has reached a coronavirus ‘tipping point’ after an explosion of cases in the last few days, including three deaths in Italy, and another four infected in Britain, sparked panic in Europe. It comes as Austria last night briefly halted all trains moving to and from Italy which has locked down … Read more
Four of the Britons evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship have tested positive for coronavirus after returning to the UK. Health officials confirmed yesterday that tests at Arrowe Park Hospital in the Wirral – where 32 passengers were being quarantined – showed the quartet had contracted the Covid-19 strain. The new cases, which bring … Read more
Iran’s hardliners took victory today in a general election marred by the lowest turnout since the 1979 Islamic Revolution amid anger at the government. Tehran, which reported its first case of coronavirus two days before Friday’s ballot, accused ‘enemies’ of fuelling fears of the deadly contagion to stifle voting. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said: ‘Their media … Read more
Six countries have imposed bans on people entering from Iran after the country announced that eight people had died from the new Covid-19 coronavirus and 43 have been infected. Iraq has barred Iranians from entering the country altogether, Pakistan has suspended almost all traffic across the border with Iran and Turkey has temporarily closed its … Read more
Coronavirus experts are more worried that they are unable to trace where clusters of the bug are breaking out than they are about the rising numbers of infections. In South Korea, Singapore and Iran, clusters of infections are leading to a jump in cases of the new viral illness outside China. World Health Organization officials … Read more
Conservative Iranian hardliners are expected to sweep to victory in elections today after seizing on US killing of terrorist general Qassem Soleimani. Sitting moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is unlikely to pick up adequate support as many voters are expected to stay away from the polls. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was pictured voting in … Read more
A series of maps has revealed how the coronavirus outbreak has spread through China and leaped to at least 26 other countries around the world. More than 74,000 people have now been infected with the virus in China and 2,006 people have died there, but international cases continue to crop up. They have been found … Read more