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NEW DELHI (BLOOMBERG) – As India’s surging coronavirus caseload becomes an increasing worry for the world, another health disaster is silently unfolding. The world’s strictest…
View More India's health 'time bomb' keeps ticking, and it's not Covid-19
(Reuters) – Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari said on Thursday that he supported the U.S. central bank’s emergency interest rate cut this week, and…
View More Fed's Kashkari says he supported rate cut as 'insurance' in face of uncertainty
ROME (REUTERS) – The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has risen by 41 over the past 24 hours to 148, the…
View More Coronavirus: Deaths in Italy jump to 148, cases climb to 3,858
ROME (REUTERS) – Schools and universities will stay closed for a second consecutive week in three northern Italian regions in an effort to contain Europe’s…
View More Coronavirus: Schools, universities to stay shut as northern Italy battles bug
SINGAPORE – The 62 Covid-19 patients who have been discharged here no longer have the virus in them and cannot pass the infection on to…
View More Discharged coronavirus patients here no longer have viable virus and will not spread disease: NCID
TOKYO (REUTERS) – A man in his 80s in Japan’s northernmost major island of Hokkaido has died after contracting the new coronavirus, commercial broadcaster TBS…
View More Another death reported from coronavirus in Hokkaido, Japan
TOKYO – With the third death linked to the Diamond Princess cruise ship on Sunday (Feb 23) and the number of coronavirus cases continuing to…
View More Coronavirus: Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe calls for 'basic policy' to fight spread of disease
TOKYO (BLOOMBERG) – Japan is emerging as one of the riskiest places for the spread of the coronavirus, prompting criticism that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s…
View More As cases mount, Japan is rapidly becoming a coronavirus hotbed
CHICAGO (REUTERS) – Scientists in China who studied nose and throat swabs from 18 patients infected with the new coronavirus say it behaves much more…
View More Coronavirus spreads more like flu than Sars: Chinese study
TEHERAN (AFP) – Two people have died in Iran after testing positive on Wednesday (Feb 19) for the new coronavirus, the health ministry said, in…
View More Coronavirus kills two in Iran, says health ministry
BRUSSELS (AFP) – Travel restrictions imposed on China over its virus outbreak are only fuelling “panic” and threatening attempts to resume business, the country’s ambassador…
View More Coronavirus: Travel restrictions on China fuelling 'panic', says ambassador to EU
BEIJING (AFP, REUTERS) – The number of confirmed deaths from China’s coronavirus outbreak rose to at least 490, after authorities in Hubei province reported 65…
View More Coronavirus: China's death toll rises to 490, number of infections exceed 24,300
SINGAPORE – All patients with pneumonia in public hospitals have been undergoing tests for the coronavirus since last week, said the Ministry of Health (MOH)…
View More All pneumonia patients in public hospitals here being tested for coronavirus: MOH
BEIJING (REUTERS, AFP) – The number of deaths in China’s central Hubei province from the new coronavirus outbreak had risen by 45 to 294 as…
View More Wuhan virus: China virus death toll rises to 304 with 45 new fatalities in Hubei province