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Italy Virus Outbreak   –   Copyright  AP Photo/Paolo Santalucia  There are now more confirmed cases of coronavirus globally than there are in China. At least 88,000 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed globally, compared with 81,000 in China, according to an updated count of cases by researchers at Johns Hopkins University. It comes as deaths related to the virus […]

Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr Anthony Fauci speaks during a news briefing on the Trump administration’s responseto the coronavirus at the White House in Washington, D.C. on March 15, 2020. © Joshua Roberts, Reuters The medical impact of the new coronavirus is coming into sharper focus as it continues its […]

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says knee-jerk reactions to the novel coronavirus will not keep people safe, as he defended Canada’s decision not to close its borders to foreign nationals coming from regions where the outbreak is spreading. Misinformation being spread about the virus, which can cause a respiratory disease known as COVID-19, is having negative impacts on […]

President Xi Jinping visits Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan, Central China’s Hubei province, March 10, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING – An article by President Xi Jinping on providing strong scientific and technological support for winning the battle against novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) will be published Monday on the Qiushi Journal, a flagship magazine of the Communist Party of […]

Women wear face masks at the Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, north of Paris, Thursday, March 12, 2020.   –   Copyright  AP Photo/Thibault Camus    As the coronavirus pandemic keeps progressing, an increasing number of people have raised medical questions about the COVID-19. Its true fatality rate isn’t yet known, but it experts believe it’s ten times higher than […]

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 Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian wrote on his Twitter account on Thursday that the US military may have brought the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) to Wuhan. “CDC was caught on the spot. When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? What are the names of the hospitals?” Zhao wrote on Twitter, “It […]

Kataib Hezbollah was one of the Iraqi militia groups that helped defeat the ISIL (ISIS) group in Iraq [File: Ali Mohammed/EPA] Iraq’s military said in a statement that the US air raids hit four locations in the country. In a statement, the Pentagon said the US conducted “defensive precision strikes” against Kataib Hezbollah facilities across Iraq. “These […]

  The latest novel coronavirus news from Canada and around the world on Thursday:12:47 p.m.: Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s communications director tested positive for the new coronavirus, just days after travelling with Bolsonaro to a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida.A statement from the president’s communications office on Thursday said director Fábio Wajngarten’s test results have […]

(Yonhap) South Korea said Thursday that those arriving in the country after visiting five European countries, including Germany, will face stepped-up quarantine requirements starting next week, as the government grapples with the largest-yet cluster infections of novel coronavirus in the capital. South Korea’s coronavirus cases climbed by 114 to 7,869 as of midnight Wednesday, the […]