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One more person tested positive for coronavirus today, taking the number of affected persons to 30. The figure had taken a jump yesterday with a group of 14 Italian tourists testing positive for the virus. The rising number of cases has pushed the Delhi government to shut the primary schools till March 30. A similar decision is likely for the secondary section once the exams are over, the government has hinted. Prime Minister Narendra Modi postponed his next week's visit to Brussels, Belgium for the India-European Union summit. The foreign ministry said both nations agreed to this in view of the outbreak. The global trade association of airlines, the International Air Transport Association or IATA said depending on how the #coronavirus spreads, airline industry could face up to $113 billion in lost revenues this year. read more...
So far, New Jersey has no confirmed cases, Gov. Phil Murphy and other state officials said at a news conference held to address concerns.
The Dow industrials posted the largest-ever points drop on Thursday as Wall Stre...
If you have plans to attend an event anywhere beyond your own neighbourhood this spring, the thought has probably crossed your mind: “Oh, I wonder if that’ll get cancelled.”
The Bank of Canada cut its key benchmark interest rate Wednesday morning over concerns about what the coronavirus could do to the economy.
BEIJING/ZURICH — China has approved the use of Swiss drugmaker Roche’s anti-inflammation drug Actemra for patients who develop severe complications from the coronavirus as it urgently h…
Films and TV shows are being delayed as the virus spreads across the world.
Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Dr. Tedros Adhanom...
While infections in the rest of the world accelerate, the coronavirus epidemic is showing signs of easing at its center -- China -- with new cases slowing dramatically and recoveries gathering pace. Still, doubt remains over whether the government’s statistics show the full picture.
Some theaters in China have already been shut down.
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, the two-term United Nations secretary-general who brokered a historic cease-fire between Iran and Iraq in 1988 and who in later life came out of retirement to help re-establish democracy in his Peruvian homeland, has died. He was 100.
Falsehoods and misunderstandings propagate in a vacuum of uncertainty
Qantas has confirmed it stood down a staff member after they told employees it wasn't safe to work on aircraft arriving from China.
The primary school in Buxton says a deep clean of the premises is taking place.
Fears of the coronavirus have crippled Africa’s safari industry, a survey conducted by SafariBookings has found.
The recent spread of the coronavirus is causing a global panic.
CNN host Michael Smerconish apparently thinks there’s a correlation between Sen. Bernie Sanders’ surging presidential campaign and the deadly coronavirus outbreak causing fear across the globe. Smerconish introduced his bizarre theory on Saturday morning’s installment of his self-titled show, Smerconish. “Can either coronavirus or Bernie Sanders be stopped?” he pondered before attempting to explain what
As the disease continues to spread, we would like to hear what people are doing to keep themselves and their communities safe.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said that funds being used to construct the president’s border wall with Mexico should be redirected to help contain coronavirus, a quickly spreading epidemic with origins in China. “I’m going to be introducing a plan tomorrow to take every dime that the president is now taking to spend on his racist wall at the southern border and divert it to the coronavirus,” the candidate said during a CNN town hall on Wednesday...