Weddings and funerals are also suspended until further notice. Weekday Masses will continue as fewer people attend them. The faithful are asked to sit in church and not shake hands. For priest in the capital, measures are designed to contain the contagion. Card Sako offers a “special prayer” to God the Father and Mary.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention botched its first attempt to mass produce a diagnostic test kit, a discovery made only after officials had shipped hundreds of kits to state laboratories. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/02/health/coronavirus-testing-cdc.html
The patient at a Monmouth County hospital with a suspected case of coronavirus tested negative for the illness, the state Department of Health said Saturday. The announcement means there are still no confirmed cases of the virus in New Jersey. There are also no other people in New Jersey who are awaiting testing for the virus that causes COVID-19, state health officials said. The patient had ...
Some at-risk employees are being asked to work from home or attend virtual meetings.
Global health experts say the scope of South Korea’s coronavirus diagnostic capability exhibit impressive lab capabilities that no other country can match at the moment.
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, says the outbreak of Coronavirus has negatively impacted...
The latest patient being treated for the novel coronavirus in the U.S. is being investigated as possibly the first case of "community spread" on American soil.
“The main thing is no one got hurt tonight and we’ve been able to save quite a lot of toilet paper,” fire officials said.
Travellers from northern Italy and Iran will be barred from entering Singapore from Thursday, with those who have been to South Korea also to be denied entry as the number of coronavirus cases there continues to mushroom.The new measures came as the city state reported two fresh virus infections, and
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"From now on, all flights and passengers will be part of universal screening, not just the 12 countries which we had listed earlier," said the Health Minister
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A German industry body has said that coronavirus poses the biggest risk of pushing the country's teetering economy into a recession. Quarantine measures related to the deadly outbreak have disrupted global supply chains.
Iran’s ambassador to Croatia met with the country’s Health Ministry officials and the anti-coronavirus office in Zagreb
For the next month, no fans will be permitted to attend any sporting event in Italy.
The last Ebola patient being treated in the Democratic Republic of Congo went home from a treatment center on Tuesday, according to the World Health Organization, a significant step in the countdown to declaring an end to the world's second-deadliest outbreak of the disease.
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The expanding number of coronavirus cases in California and Washington state spread through community contact have heightened concerns. But experts warn the rising case counts in the U.S. do not necessarily reveal that the virus is spreading rapidly across the country. They also urged the public to stay calm and keep the virus in perspective. "Stigma, to be honest, is more dangerous than the ...