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Six students and faculty members at the University of Houston are self-quarantined after returning from trips to South Korea and Italy - a precautionary measure amid the spreading coronavirus outbreak, the university announced Wednesday. read more...
A 95-year-old woman who died in a Sydney hospital on Tuesday night was confirmed to have had the COVID-19 strain.
England manager confident the right decisions will be made ahead of internationals.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called a surge in violence in Afghanistan this week “unacceptable” and warned both the Taliban and the Afghan government to “stop posturing” ahead of intra-Afghan peace talks.
Israel on Wednesday ordered travelers arriving from Germany, France, Spain, Aust...
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IOC stands firm on Tokyo Games despite coronavirus concerns
The Nepali government has suspended the visa-on-arrival regime for nationals of five countries - China, South Korea, Japan, Italy and Iran which were badly affected by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, a Nepali minister said.
Since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday warned that it's not a question of if, but when the novel coronavirus will spread in the United States, some places have already issued emergency declarations, and more could be coming from cities, counties and states.
Three teams are still under mandatory lockdown in their hotel, with a fourth team remaining in isolation by choice.
More cases of the novel coronavirus were reported globally, from Australia to South Korea, as some health officials warned it would be impossible to fully contain the pathogen now that infections are spreading within communities.
Lebanon confirmed its first coronavirus case Friday, a 45-year-old woman who had arrived from Iran and was being quarantined in a hospital. "We confirmed the first case today," Lebanese health minister Hassan Hamad told a news conference, adding that two other suspected cases are being investigated. The woman arrived Thursday on a flight from the city of Qom in Iran.
There are now more than 100 infections in the United States, with Washington and California the worst affected states. Follow the latest here.
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The number of newly reported deaths in mainland China stood at 35, down from 47 on the previous day, bringing the total death toll there to 2,870.
Coronavirus Concerns: American Airlines suspending flights from Milan into Miami, JFK amid coronavirus concerns
An Amazon worker in Seattle tested positive for the novel coronavirus as concerns mounted over its spread in the U.S., though the number of new infections in China, where the outbreak began, continued to decline.
New research suggests community transmission since mid-January.