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NYC Mayor de Blasio: Hospitals Will 'Go Broke' Without Bill's Help

More than 9,000 of those cases were in New York City. Cuomo also ordered the city over the weekend to come up with a plan for enforcing restrictions on gather...

Chris Hemsworth offers free access to fitness app during coronavirus crisis

Visit Insider's homepage for more stories . Chris Hemsworth has released his fitness app for free so people can train like Thor at home while they self-is...

Hancock admits ‘challenges’ in supplying medics with protective equipment

He said the army would drive trucks throughout the day and night to get supplies to medical staff."It's like a war effort, it is a war against this virus and so...

Arizona Man Dies After Self-Treating Coronavirus with Chloroquine Phosphate, Says Hospital

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Patient under age of 18 dies from virus in California

Less than three percent of hospitalisations from coronavirus were due to that age group. She did not disclose the exact age of the individual but added the pers...

Australia bans all overseas travel, limits social gatherings amid COVID-19 pandemic

Morrison said the "do not travel" advisory on overseas trips would be upgraded to a ban on Wednesday, with limited exceptions for essential work, aid workers ...

Explained: Amid coronavirus outbreak, Hantavirus creates havoc on social media

All the 32 passengers in the bus were also tested, the publication added, without details. Meanwhile, the novel coronavirus , which was first reported in t...

NY infection rate 'accelerating,' could swamp hospitals

Further expansions to New York's bed capacity could include school dormitories and even some hotels, Cuomo said Tuesday at his daily press briefing from the...

Nobel Laureate on Coronavirus: 'We're Going to Be Fine'

With all that in mind, Levitt believes the number of new infections will begin to decrease more quickly that many prognosticators are suggesting. The "real" s...

Coronavirus: Pandemic is 'accelerating', World Health Organization warns as cases pass 300,000

Experts maintain that the number of coronavirus positive cases across the world represent only a fraction of the true number of infections because in many cou...

1 in 3 infected were 'silent carriers' of COVID-19

Increasingly, scientists believe that those showing no symptoms of the disease are still capable of transmitting the virus to others. Fox News Flash top headl...

Italy records smaller increase in virus cases for 2nd day

The number of new officially registered infections fell from 6,557 on Saturday to 4,789 on Monday. The daily fatality figure dropped from Sunday's 651 and Satur...

Coronavirus found on Diamond Princess surfaces 17 days later

The Labor Party Labor also urged the government to use expanded powers endorsed by the Australian Senate on Monday night to allow the more than 1.6 million temp...

Ford works with 3M, GE to speed up ventilator, respirator production

Details: Ford is working on multiple fronts to help the companies increase production of their own products, and innovating some of its own solutions. Ford s...

NY coronavirus infection rate accelerating like ‘a bullet train’

In addition to the Javits Center, Cuomo also asked the federal government to set up makeshift hospitals at the Westchester Convention Center, to accommodate t...

Ford joins 3M, GE in speeding up ventilator, respirator production

Separately, Ford will work with 3M to increase manufacturing capacity of its air-purifying respirators by up to a factor of 10 to meet a surge in demand for fir...

Nurses at Hackley Hospital told not to wear their own protective masks

At the end of January, when the coronavirus was starting to dominate the headlines, Roman told CNBC that 3M was "ramping to full production". Vice Preside...

Lockdowns not enough to defeat coronavirus: WHO's Mike Ryan

The Bank of England also recognised that banknotes "can carry bacteria or viruses" and encouraged frequent hand washing. As countries across the world are imp...

Now Hantavirus surfaces in China amid coronavirus challenge

There are now over 387,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and the death toll is above 16,700 most of which have been reported from Italy. Other 32 people on th...

Italy sees second successive drop in coronavirus deaths

The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has grown by 602 to 6,077, the head of the Civil Protection Agency said on Monday, the smallest rise in ...

Will COVID-19 lockdown put Canadian ‘civil liberties in jeopardy’?

The emergency action plan also sets aside $1.5 billion for B.C.'s economic recovery, which will focus on encouraging investment and supporting B.C.'s competitiv...

Coronavirus: The four reasons you are allowed to leave your home

Visits to friends and family is not allowed and only travel for essential work that cannot be completed at home is permitted. The public will also be able to ...

Which U.S. States Have Confirmed Coronavirus Cases?

Stay home if you feel sick. That is roughly four times the COVID-19 toll globally. If you are a returning traveler from any the above areas and are experien...

Governor of Oregon Issues 'Stay At Home' Order

Not just from a medical standpoint, but from a social and behavioral standpoint. Brown said to continue to practice aggressive social distancing when you are ou...

Inslee issues ‘stay home’ order for state

Inslee had spent the last two weeks building up to the order, by prohibiting gatherings of 250 people or more, then closing schools, then ordering restaurants, ...

Stay home for three months, UK tells 1.5m most at risk

Johnson responded by implementing a series of tougher measures last week, with schools and leisure facilities ordered to close, and people instructed to stay in...

Texas, Ohio governors order non-essential surgeries to be stopped, including most abortions

Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories . Most abortion clinics in OH intend to defy an order by Ohio's attorney general to stop performing abortio...

Northam to Virginians: Coronavirus crisis likely to last months

On Thursday, the first child under 10 years old was reported to have tested positive for coronavirus. The virus started in China and has since infected hundr...

Number of COVID-19 cases in B.C. rises to 472

Over the weekend, Fraser Health confirmed a staff member at Delta View Care Centre had been diagnosed with COVID-19. "Every day at the briefing, we report on ...

Confirmed COVID-19 cases in BC rise to 424

Additionally, the province is ordering all personal service establishments to close, including salons, spas, and massage and tattoo parlours. Twenty-seven peo...