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Two U.S. steel companies recently announced they were expanding in Mexico through acquisitions and facilities upgrades. The investments come despite recent drops in Mexican steel production related to the coronavirus. Wisconsin-based Maysteel Industries is expanding sheet metal fabrication operations in Monterrey. The company's new 200,000-square-foot campus in Monterrey will feature a streamlined layout designed around optimizing material flow.... read more...
WHO has been quick to praise China for its coronavirus containment efforts, but experts question whether information coming out of the country can be trusted.
Vice health minister Kim Kang-lip told a briefing that it was a "critical moment" in the country's COVID-19 crisis.
Australian man in his 70s was passenger on Diamond Princess cruise ship; France and Italy restrict public events as cases spread. Follow live news
The leader of a controversial religious sect at the center of the coronavirus outbreak in South Korea apologized Monday as the government in Seoul seeks a murder investigation into the group, saying the church refused to cooperate with efforts to stop the virus.
Two U.S. steel companies recently announced they were expanding in Mexico through acquisitions and facilities upgrades. The investments come despite recent drops in Mexican steel production related to the coronavirus. Wisconsin-based Maysteel Industries is expanding sheet metal fabrication operations in Monterrey. The company's new 200,000-square-foot campus in Monterrey will feature a streamlined layout designed around optimizing material flow....
Police are investigating an alleged race-hate attack on a Singaporean student in London by a group of people who are said to have shouted about the coronavirus before beating him up. Officers said they were looking into reports of an attack on Oxford Street at about 9.30pm last Monday, after Jonathan Mok shared pictures of his battered face and wrote about his ordeal in a Facebook post. Mok said one of the group tried to kick him in the head and...
A man in Wake County has tested positive for coronavirus, Gov. Roy Cooper said Tuesday. It is North Carolina's first case of the new illness.
Jiye Seong-Yu’s experience in the Netherlands is being replicated across Europe, as racist attacks linked to the novel coronavirus spike.
Six more people with links to the canceled UAE Tour cycling race have been infected with the virus spreading around the world.
Health officials in Afghanistan reported three suspected cases of coronavirus Sunday in a western province next to the border with Iran, where the outbreak of the disease has killed at least eight people amid a rise in new cases. The reported cases prompted the Afghan government to temporarily suspend air and land travel with Iran and halt the import of chicken and eggs from the neighboring country, said an official statement. An Afghan health ministry spokesman in Kabul told VOA the three patients have been admitted to an isolated ward in the provincial center of Herat. Waheedullah Mayar said
The health ministry describes Patient 26, a top official from the sovereign wealth fund Khazanah, as an ‘extraordinary spreader’ It has traced 215 people who met the official, while some politicians say they will self-quarantine after meeting parties who had contact with Patient 26 Malaysia’s total number of coronavirus cases rose to 50 on Wednesday as it confirmed 14 new patients, its largest one-day jump, linked to a local cluster that also...
Police are investigating the alleged attack, which left the student with facial fractures, swelling and a black eye
A cruise has been canceled while health officials investigate a cluster of coronavirus cases connected to a previous voyage involving the same ship, Princess Cruise Lines announced Wednesday. A health advisory released by Grant Tarling, chief medical officer at Princess Cruises, said that the Grand Princess will not go to Ensenada, Mexico, on Thursday and will instead sail directly to San Francisco. Sign up for our Newsletters The trip...
Chief Medical Officer Prof Chris Whitty is currently in front of parliament's health committee.
An outbreak of a new virus that emerged in China about two months ago has now infected more than 93,000 people globally and has claimed over 3,000 lives.
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.