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It was announced that the Ministry of Health of Thailand will meet on Monday (tomorrow) and evaluate the new treatment. World Health Organization country repr...

9th USA case of coronavirus confirmed near San Francisco

Anyone with respiratory symptoms , such as a cough, sore throat, or fever, should stay home, practice proper cough etiquette and hand hygiene, and limit their ...

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In addition to the slightly increased risk for heart disease associated with meat consumption, eating poultry also resulted in a small elevated risk - just over...

£20m for combating coronavirus and other infectious diseases

According to reports, GSK will contribute its adjuvant platform for pandemic vaccines to the Coalition for the Epidemic Preparedness Innovations in the fight ag...

Trump impeachment trial day 12: All the latest updates

It's refreshing, to a degree, that so many GOP lawmakers are willing to concede that Trump's nonsensical "hoax" talking point, repeated obsessively despite its ...

Trump impeachment trial nears end with closing arguments

House Manager Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., began his argument by focusing on the allegation the Trump obstructed Congress by instructing officials not to compl...

Inside Wuhan's fast-built hospital | China

She said it was unreasonable for countries around the world to try to prevent people from crossing borders and urged foreign government to make "reasonable, cal...

Disha Patani, Tiger Shroff step out for a lunch date

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China says coronavirus death toll rises to 361, confirmed cases 17,205

Even so, Chinese data on the numbers of infections and deaths suggests the new coronavirus is less deadly than the SARS outbreak, although such numbers can evol...

First two coronavirus cases confirmed in UK

He said they were being treated at a specialist infectious diseases unit at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle. The World Health Organisation has deplo...

Do the Coronavirus, Bird Flu H5N1 Mean the End of Humankind?

The bird flu has been classed as highly pathogenic because of the number of birds which have died from the disease. The People's Bank of China has also inject...

China: Stocks plunge almost 9% on virus fears

The virus has killed more than 360 people, all but one in China. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index ended the morning session down 8.13 percent, or 241.87...

Thai Doctors Say They Cured Patient of Coronavirus ‘in 48 Hours’

The patient's condition significantly improved within 48 hours after the medical team made a decision to use antiviral drugs originally used for HIV and influen...

China reports H5N1 bird flu outbreak; 18,000 chickens culled

But the virus was particularly unsafe for farmed fowl and nearly all human cases were among people who had direct contact with infected birds. It is possible,...

Iraq bars foreign arrivals from China over coronavirus fears

The man's female companion also got the virus and remained in isolation at a Manila hospital, according to the country's health department. Upon their retur...

Santa Clara County California confirms first case of coronavirus

The husband and wife, both 57, are from San Benito County and the man recently traveled to Wuhan, China, where the deadly virus originated , according to NBC ...

Philippines reports first death related to coronavirus outside of China

According to the World Health Organization, coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe d...

Philippines reports world's 1st virus death outside China

The United States, Australia, New Zealand and Israel banned foreign nationals from visiting if they had been in China recently, and warned their own citizens ...

1st coronavirus-related death outside of China reported

The Philippine Health Department said a 44-year-old Chinese man from Wuhan , the city at the centre of the crisis, was hospitalized January 25 with a fever, co...

Trump says United States has 'shut down' coronavirus threat; China shuns USA help

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The number of people with the virus detected outside of China's mainland reached 14 in Hong Kong Special...

United States confirms its seventh case of new virus

No confirmed cases have been reported in Alameda County, San Mateo County or Contra Costa County as of Friday, health officials said. Over 200 people have died,...

First Death From Wuhan Coronavirus Outside China Reported in Philippines

The outbreak prompted the World Health Organization ( WHO ) to declare a public health emergency of global concern earlier this week so as to ensure all natio...

Pentagon approves quarantine for 1,000 people amid coronavirus outbreak

The male patient, a resident of Santa Clara County, had recently traveled from Wuhan to Shanghai and arrived at the San Jose International Airport on January 24...

Coronavirus arrives in United Kingdom as two people test positive for disease

There have been 98 cases in another 18 countries. "Public Health England (PHE) have now informed us that one of the two individuals to have tested positive fo...

Eighth US coronavirus case confirmed in Boston

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health and also the Boston Public Health Commission were informed by the United States Centers for Disease Control an...

India reports 2nd case of novel coronavirus: Kerala govt

Similar measures have been in place across all of Hubei, effectively sealing off more than 50 million people. Wuhan officials estimate about 5 million people ...

Singapore bars arrivals from China over virus fears

All are Chinese nationals from Wuhan. Yesterday, both Sabah and Sarawak have announced travel bans for mainland China visitors but the Federal Government has ...

United Kingdom confirms first two coronavirus cases

While in quarantine, the evacuated passengers are being given fully furnished rooms, food, laundry facilities and have access to a team of medical staff who wil...

First cases of Coronavirus confirmed in UK

He said the university is monitoring developments closely, will provide advice and care to anyone affected, and he urged anyone with concerns to visit the unive...

Block placed on email details about Trump hold on Ukraine aid

On Friday, just two Republican senators - Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Collins of ME - joined Democrats in voting to introduce witnesses into the impeachmen...