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Mainland China now has 78,824 novel coronavirus cases

Even China is now anxious about importing cases and has ordered people arriving in Beijing from affected countries to go into a 14-day self-quarantine. The comm...

S. Korea reports 256 new virus cases, total tops 2000

The virus has killed 2,715 people and infected over 78,000 in China. There have been more than 50 deaths and 3,600 cases in dozens of other countries, raising f...

New treatment offers hope for people suffering with chronic cough

Gefapixant, a P2X3 agonist that blocks a receptor involved in the cough reflex, has been found in previous studies that reduces the frequency of cough when give...

Top Doctor Says We Will All Get Coronavirus

People wear masks to help guard against the Coronavirus in downtown Tehran, Iran. He believes the virus will become what researchers call an "endemic virus", ...

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CNN reported the patient was admitted to the hospital on February 19, but a test was not ordered by the CDC until February 23. Three others were repatriated fr...

USA warns of coronavirus pandemic as Latin America reports first case

A lot of that panic has to do with all of the unknown answers to questions the general public has about COVID-19-including the illness' survival rate, or how ma...

Northern Ireland confirms first coronavirus case

The individual acted appropriately in reporting concerns to the health authorities but those most at risk who were in close proximity are being traced and check...

Hawaiian Air Suspends Service To South Korea, Delta Reduces Flights

South Korea, meanwhile, has raised its national threat level to its highest. USA stocks continued a massive sell-off Tuesday amid the anxiety over the increas...

Facebook bans ads with false claims about coronavirus

On Tuesday, Facebook took it a step further. Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it would ban advertisements for products offering any cures or prevention around...

Antiviral drug Remdesivir gains three patents in China

It is known that the first drug will have on the American who were evacuated after the quarantine on the cruise ship Diamond Princess that stood in the Japanese...

Coronavirus: Britons returning from northern Italy told to self-isolate

But he said if any United Kingdom citizens are in the lockdown towns, they should contact the embassy in Rome. However, there were no changes to travel advice...

COVID-19 outbreak at decisive point

He also said discussions were being held with organisers about the fate of the Olympic games scheduled for July in Japan. Iran-related infections have been co...

China's efforts against COVID-19 encouraging -- United States health expert — Interview

The new flu-like disease is now called Covid-19 (sometimes referred to as novel coronavirus or 2019-nCoV). The number of deaths in China - where the virus w...

Coronavirus: 12 deaths, 374 infected - English

Health ministers from Italy's neighbors who had a meeting in Rome with EU's health commissioner said that closing borders would be an ineffective and disproport...

UK Schools close over Italy coronavirus fears

The letter to parents added: "Please rest assured the closure of the three schools is purely a precautionary measure, as we are placing the safety and wellbeing...

New Mexico's congressional delegation react to Trump's coronavirus address

Azar told lawmakers the United States would be unlikely to take measures such as regional quarantines, which China and other countries have been using, if t...

Two more coronavirus cases in England bring UK total to 15

The latest United Kingdom cases emerged as European countries struggled to contain the virus. New cases have emerged across Europe, many linked to the conti...

Hardest-hit China, South Korea count 938 new virus cases

Daegu , a metropolis of some 2.4 million people about 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul, has become the biggest cluster of mass infection since the nation's 31s...

Bring down your risk of breast cancer: Reduce milk intake

The research, which was carried out at Loma Linda Health University, monitored over 52,000 women with an average age of 57 years, and evaluated their diets us...

Britain advises travellers self isolate after north Italy trips

Britons who have been in locked-down regions of Italy - including parts of Lombardy and Veneto - should self-isolate at home for 14 days even if they have n...

Sixth patient confirmed to have coronavirus is husband to existing patient

Ontario now has a sixth confirmed case of the novel coronavirus , and health officials say it is the first instance in the province of human-to-human transmiss...

COVID-19: World Health Organization to send team of experts to Iran

Are we there yet? The WHO envoy claimed that " Hundreds of thousands of people in China did not get COVID-19 because of this aggressive response", reported...

Sanders, Warren Come For Bloomberg At Democratic Debate

Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was the target of some of Warren's pointed attacks. "If you're going to run based on your record in Washington, you'...

Trump suggests 'calling Bob Mueller' after Sanders win following Russian Federation report

News reported that the 78-year-old senator from Vermont was leading with 44.7 percent of the vote, followed by former vice president Joe Biden at 19.5 perce...

Americans Should Prepare For The Spread Of The New Coronavirus — CDC

This comes after the Centers for Disease Control raised the travel threat level in the country to "red alert", the highest level. "We expect to see community...

Facebook Bans Coronavirus Ads That Stir Panic and Promise Cures

As tech and social media giants engage in a kind of Whack-A-Mole for COVID-19 scaremongering and product misinformation on their websites, Facebook says it's cr...

United Kingdom warns against travelling to Italian virus towns

Britons getting back from northern Italy are being informed to self-isolate in the event that they present Coronavirus signs, the BBC stories. So far 13 peopl...

People Are Being Monitored In Nassau County For Coronavirus Concerns

Long Island health officials have been working day and night and now have a procedure in place and announced precautions they are taking to prepare for the illn...

Fight breaks out in Italian supermarket as coronavirus fears reach fever pitch

We remain in a containment phase and, to date, there have been no confirmed cases of Covid-19 here. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has blamed the m...

Coronavirus spread 'deeply concerning' but not a pandemic: World Health Organization director

Germany said on Wednesday that it was heading for a coronavirus epidemic and could no longer trace all cases, as the number of new infections inside China -...