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Some 12.8 million students across Japan were told to stay home for weeks, Saudi Arabia cut travel to Islam’s holiest sites. read more...
A woman in Japan tested positive for the coronavirus for the second time on Wednesday, as the country grips with 190 cases separate from the 704 reported from the Diamond Princess cruise ship, according to reports.
The Indian shooting federation has dropped Italy as a training venue for its sho...
Japan is announcing the closure of schools nationwide to help control the spread of the new virus.
A woman working as a tour-bus guide in Japan tested positive for the coronavirus...
Some 12.8 million students across Japan were told to stay home for weeks, Saudi Arabia cut travel to Islam’s holiest sites.
UK reports two new cases as outbreak spreads and losses on stock markets mount
Japan's Prime Minister has asked all elementary, junior high and high schools in the country to close from Monday through the students' spring break,
The move will impact about 12.8 million elementary, middle and high school students
The month-long closure will affect 13 million students, the government says.
The country, unlike others, has not experienced a sharp increase in reported cases, but it is under pressure to act decisively to preserve the Tokyo Olympics.
Japan's entire school system, from elementary to high schools, will be asked to close from Monday until spring break late in March to help contain the coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday.
Facebook on Thursday announced its decision to cancel its annual F8 software developer conference due to concerns surrounding the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
Facebook announced Thursday it is canceling its annual F8 conference due to the coronavirus outbreak and instead only hosting the virtual component. "Given the growing concerns around COVID-19, we've made the difficult decision to cancel the in-person component of F8 2020," Facebook Director of Developer Platforms and Programs Konstantinos Papamiltiadis wrote in a statement.
Microsoft and Epic Games also announced they would not be attending this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco
Japan's health minister Katsunobu Kato said on Friday there was a chance sc...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Friday the government will take polic...
Angry Japanese parents joined bewildered teachers and businesses on Friday in a ...
The K-pop band announced the news in a message posted to Twitter on Thursday.
K-pop superstar group BTS has canceled a series of planned concerts in Seoul in April due to concerns about a soaring viral outbreak in South Korea.
Greenday and Stormzi have also rescheduled the Asian legs of their tours.
The cancellations come as South Korea reports rapidly rising cases of the virus, which is believed to have originated in China before spreading globally.
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It also places some restrictions on access to major Shia Muslim shrines in Qom and Mashhad.
He is the first British person to die from Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
In what was the last of Disney's theme parks in Asia to remain open during the coronavirus outbreak, Tokyo Disneyland announced that it will close starting this weekend. The move comes a day after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declared that schools will be closed.