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These kits could potentially avoid the delays that happen when labs have to send their samples to the CDC for testing, she said. All five evacuees hospitali...

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Seven were associated with influenza B viruses and three were associated with influenza A. "We have been looking at general trends and we are definitely not o...

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The CDC says, "This is the first person under quarantine at JBSA-Lackland who had symptoms and tested positive for COVID-19". A second person that was part of t...

Coronavirus cases near 60,000 in China

The number of coronavirus cases in China now stands at 59,805 and the death toll has reached 1,367, according to the latest figures from Chinese health offici...

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Commenting on the healthcare company's disclosure that its co-chairman's stake was under legal review, Britain's markets watchdog said it is "making enquiries" ...

14th case of new coronavirus confirmed in the US

The patient was discovered in San Diego , Calif., at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. "The first and second patients arrived on different planes and were ...

Dr. Reddy's To Acquire Parts Of Wockhardt In India

The drugmaker will sell the plant in Baddi , Himachal Pradesh , India , a portfolio of 62 products and transfer all of the employees and operations of them...

CDC confirms 15th case of coronavirus in the United States

The states found out the flaw during the verification process. The kits were meant to enable states to conduct their own testing and get results faster than t...

China nCov death toll reaches 1,113, 44,653 infected

The death toll and number of cases only began to soar afterwards, going from one fatality on January 11 to more than 630 barely four weeks later. Tens of thousa...

China reports spike in virus cases with new diagnosis method

A total of 1,310 deaths have been reported from Hubei. The NHC said that singling out this category in Hubei helps patients receive treatment as early as poss...

Vietnam places 10000 under quarantine

Effective July 2018, access to full reports will only be available with a subscription. Vinh Phuc Province has so far confirmed 11 cases of the viral infect...

Global death toll from coronavirus rises to 1,357

Asian stock markets wobbled and the safe-havens of the Japanese yen, gold and bonds rose on Thursday as the number of new coronavirus cases at the outbrea...

China sees 242 coronavirus deaths, almost 15,000 new cases in one day

Health officials in Hubei province said 242 people had died from the flu-like virus on February 12, the fastest rise in the daily count since the pathogen was ...

Official Says US Health Authorities Shipped Faulty Coronavirus Test Kits Across Country

Then, Wednesday night, a fourteenth patient was confirmed. "Things may not always go as smoothly as we may like", said Messonnier. The US is bracing for the...

Hubei Province Party Secretary Relieved of Duty

The claim is false; the World Health Organization announced that COVID-19, which has now killed at least 1,300 and infected almost 60,000 in China, stands f...

Virus deaths in China's Hubei rises by 242

The head of the WHO's emergency program, Mike Ryan, also said the stabilization of new case numbers in China was reassuring, as was the apparently less aggressi...

Coronavirus death toll leaps, top provincial officials in China’s Hubei province sacked

The 14,840 brand-new cases in the Hubei Province were videotaped due to the fact that authorities quit making use of packages to identify individuals and rather...

China coronavirus outbreak: All the latest updates

A second person evacuated from Wuhan to a U.S. military base near San Diego has been diagnosed with the new coronavirus , raising the tally of confirmed cases ...

China's Hubei Province Sees Surge in Virus Deaths As Tally Method Changes

Of those, 33,693 patients have been hospitalized and 1,437 are in critical condition, according to the health authority. Jiang Chaoliang, Hubei's party secret...

Coronavirus: 9th United Kingdom case confirmed

Mr Walsh, a 53-year-old scout leader from Hove in East Sussex, now posed "no risk to the public", NHS England said. In an interesting turn of events driven by...

'Way too early' to talk about ending China outbreak, says World Health Organization doctor

China still faces a "large-scale war" and a "big test", said state broadcaster CCTV in a readout of the gathering. More than 44,600 people have been confirme...

U.S. confirms 14th case of coronavirus with patient in San Diego

The latest confirmed case comes hours after a senior CDC official Nancy Messonnier revealed that a number of coronavirus test kits sent out by USA health ...

World Health Organization says 'way too early' to predict end of novel coronavirus

The province reported a dramatic spike in COVID-19 cases Thursday, raising the total number of nationwide infections to almost 60,000 after Hubei authorities ch...

Coronavirus could kill 45m warns top Hong Kong medical official

There are now 50 cases of the virus in Hong Kong and people arriving from mainland China are required to undergo quarantine for 14 days. A previous study ...

Virus death toll surges as China changes count method

The shakeup - following Beijing's decision to dispatch top officials to the hardest hit province of Hubei - represented the biggest political fallout so far fro...

World Health Organization names coronavirus Covid-19 as China, Japan report rise in infections

The World Health Organization ( WHO ) has warned the virus poses a "grave threat" to the world, with chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, saying the virus coul...

Covid 2019: Death toll rises to 1,110 in China

Earlier in the day world health officials cautioned against a possible glimmer of hope that the number of new cases were declining. The Chinese province at th...

COVID-19: World Health Organization renames deadly coronavirus

A global research meeting wrapped up today to set priorities to answer key questions about COVID-19 and tackle the outbreak, with a simpler diagnostic test and ...

Smartphone apps not reliable to spot skin cancer

No apps have the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. These apps say the researchers, could be missing out melanomas and could be declaring potential...