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Three new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in Ontario

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South Korea reports 315 more coronavirus cases, total count rises to 2,337

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Belleville Hospital refers a patient for coronavirus testing

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U.S. health officials predict more novel coronavirus infections in next few days

The patient is a man who had traveled to China. "Given the extent of global spread, we expect to identify more individuals with COVID-19 in Washington". She had...

Agency: 2nd USA case of person who got virus from community

The Santa Clara County Public Health Department says the patient is an adult woman who was hospitalized for difficulty breathing. State health authorities...

California bracing for spread of coronavirus

The news comes just two days after the first case of novel coronavirus in a patient who had not recently traveled overseas was reported in the U.S. The to...

Another case of coronavirus confirmed in Northern California

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High school student in Washington latest coronavirus community spread victim

Coronavirus test results for the student, officials said , then came back "presumptive positive", and the student returned home before attending class. Kathy L...

US reports second case of coronavirus in person who was infected locally

The newly infected woman had no known contact with any traveler or recently infected person and did not travel recently, health officials said. An investigation...

World Health Organization raises global risk from coronavirus to "very high"

The U.S. asked its military in Saudi Arabia to avoid crowded venues including malls and cinemas. China yesterday reported 44 more deaths, raising its toll t...

Health centre patient first person to catch coronavirus in UK

It comes after a British man became the first United Kingdom citizen to die from the virus after catching it on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan. He to...

U.S. patient with coronavirus of unknown origin denied test for days

Newsom said the CDC has pledged to send more personnel to California to track the potential spread of the virus. The case in California's Solano County brough...

Agency: 2nd United States case of person who got virus from community

The State Department issued a travel advisory last month warning travelers to not visit the country. US President Donald Trump, at a campaign rally in SC befo...

Second California coronavirus case of unknown origin reported

Earlier U.S. cases include three people who were evacuated from the central China city of Wuhan, epicenter of the outbreak; 14 people who returned from China, o...

New coronavirus cases in California, Oregon likely from community spread

The head of the World Health Organization said that kind of transmission, of unknown origin and possibly from the general population, represented the third of...

California health officials confirm 33 cases of novel coronavirus

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a daily briefing. "I just received word, literally just a few minutes ago, that four more of the tests were negative", Wooten sa...

Ontario Confirms New Positive Case of COVID-19

According to Dr. David William, after arriving in Toronto on February 25, a man in his 50s presented himself at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre's emergency de...

Coronavirus: WHO warns risk of global spread very high

South Korea has the most cases outside China, with almost 3,000 infections as 594 more patients were reported on Saturday - the country's biggest increase to da...

Northern California finds a second case of coronavirus spread through the community

Santa Clara County Health officials confirmed on Friday the second coronavirus case of "unknown origin" in a patient who had not come in contact with any kn...

OR announces first, presumptive case of Covid-19

The state agency is providingweekly updates about how many people are being monitored in Oregon. Oregon's top health official told lawmakers Friday, before th...

World Health Organization expert dismisses declaration of pandemic as unhelpful amid new virus outbreak

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Hardest-hit China, South Korea count 938 new COVID-19 cases

WHO's Director-General also noted that seven new countries in the past 24 hours have reported cases of coronavirus for the first time: Brazil, Georgia, Gree...

Super Tuesday 2020: Crossover voting rules in place for primary runoff

The primary ballots in Washington state have been somewhat controversial, as voters are required to pick a party affiliation - on the outside of the ballot - in...

Coronavirus: Two new cases confirmed in UK

He is the sixth passenger to die from Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the virus, Japan's health ministry said. The total number of cases in Englan...

California monitoring 8,400 people for possible coronavirus

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