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Italy announces virus quarantine affecting 16 million people
Published On: March 8, 2020 11:47 AM NPT By: Associated Press
ROME, March 8: Italy’s prime minister announced a sweeping coronavirus quarantine early Sunday, restricting the movements of about a quarter of the country’s population in a bid to limit contagions at the epicenter of Europe’s outbreak.
Four die at collapsed China quarantine site; virus spread slows ex-Wuhan
Published On: March 8, 2020 11:00 AM NPT By: Reuters
SHANGHAI/BEIJING, March 8: Four people have died in the collapse of a hotel in the Chinese city of Quanzhou, the Ministry of Emergency Management said on Sunday, after state media said the place was being used to quarantine individuals under observation for the coronavirus.
Seventy trapped after Chinese coronavirus quarantine hotel collapses, more than half rescued
Published On: March 8, 2020 09:48 AM NPT By: Reuters
SHANGHAI, March 8: A five-storey hotel being used for coronavirus quarantine collapsed in the southeast Chinese port city of Quanzhou on Saturday, trapping about 70 people, state media said.
Coronavirus infects 100,000-plus worldwide, 21 cases found on ship off San Francisco
Published On: March 7, 2020 08:00 PM NPT By: Reuters
LONDON/LOS ANGELES, March 7: Twenty-one people aboard a cruise ship that was barred from docking in San Francisco have tested positive for coronavirus, U.S. officials said on Friday, adding to the more than 100,000 cases of the fast-spreading illness across the world.
Iranian MP dies from coronavirus: Tasnim news agency
Published On: March 7, 2020 03:45 PM NPT By: Reuters
DUBAI, March 7: An Iranian lawmaker has died from coronavirus, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday, in an another sign the disease is spreading within state institutions.
Senior member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards killed in Syria: Fars
Published On: March 7, 2020 02:45 PM NPT By: Reuters
DUBAI, March 7: A senior member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Farhad Dabirian, was “martyred” in Syria on Friday, Fars news agency reported, without giving details of how he died.
How to reduce the spread of coronavirus
Published On: March 7, 2020 02:40 PM NPT By: Agencies
WASHINGTON, March 7: Health experts say the best, simplest ways to preven the spread of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that has killed more than 3,200 people and affected more than 100,000 around the world, follow the tried and true cold-season admonishments given out for generations.
21 positive for coronavirus on cruise ship off California
Published On: March 7, 2020 01:40 PM NPT By: Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, March 7: Twenty-one people aboard a mammoth cruise ship off the California coast tested positive for the new coronavirus and 19 of them are crew members, Vice President Mike Pence announced Friday, amid evidence the vessel was the breeding ground for a deadly cluster of more than 10 cases during its previous voyage.
South Korea's coronavirus cases rise to 6,767 with most cases traced to church
Published On: March 7, 2020 12:50 PM NPT By: Reuters
SEOUL, March 7: South Korea’s coronavirus cases rose to 6,767 on Saturday, up by 174 from late Friday, with more than 60% of the total cases linked to a secretive church at the center of the country’s outbreak, health authorities said.
Virus cases top 100,000 in 90 countries as markets take dive
Published On: March 7, 2020 12:27 PM NPT By: Associated Press
PARIS, March 7: Crossing more borders, the new coronavirus hit a milestone, infecting more than 100,000 people worldwide as it wove itself deeper into the daily lives of millions, infecting the powerful, the unprotected poor and vast masses in between.
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