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Google is recommending all of its North American employees to work from home if their roles permit, the search giant said on Tuesday, aiming to minimize the risk of spreading the coronavirus.
The Washington Post is encouraging its staff to work at home and the Los Angeles Times is restricting air travel, two illustrations of how news organizations compelled to cover the coronavirus outbreak are balancing the need
A UK health official has tested positive for COVID-19 and is self-isolating at home, UK's Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock said on his Twitter account Tuesday evening.
President Xi Jinping visited China's virus epicenter Tuesday for the first time since cases of a then-unidentified respiratory illness emerged in the city of Wuhan in December.
The patient, who was being treated at the North Manchester General Hospital, was over 60 years old and had significant underlying health conditions. They had recently travelled from an affected area. Contact tracing is alread
The ban on travellers from Bangladesh will remain effective from March 10 to 24
The death toll from the viral outbreak Coronavirus that began in China now has climbed to 3,830.
Germany and France withdrew their representatives from North Korea and closed their missions on Monday, the British ambassador there said, amid growing concern in the isolated country about the spread of the coronavirus.
Islamists pelted campaigners with stones, shoes, and sticks as they marched in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, on Sunday to mark International Women’s Day.
Qatar has temporarily barred travelers from 14 countries from March 09 as a precaution against the rapidly spreading coronavirus, the government announced on Sunday.
The number of people to have died from the coronavirus in Italy has shot up by 133 in a day to 366.
Two more people succumbed to the novel coronavirus in Washington state, officials said on Saturday (local time), bringing the nationwide toll to 19, while the number of confirmed cases in New York rose to 89 and a cruise ship
Italy's prime minister has said at least 16 million people are in mandatory quarantine in the Lombardy region and also in 14 provinces.
Mexican authorities on Friday said they have identified a sixth person infected with coronavirus, a 71-year-old man in the State of Mexico who recently traveled to northern Italy.
Three senior members of Saudi Arabia's royal family, including the king's brother, have been arrested for unexplained reasons, US media report.
Iraqi Health Ministry on Friday announced eight new cases of COVID-19, bringing the number of confirmed cases to 46 in the country, of whom four have died.
The number of people infected with the new virus charged toward 100,000 Friday, with the global scare upending routines, threatening livelihoods and prompting quarantines in its spread.
Former UN secretary-general Javier Perez de Cuellar, a Peruvian diplomat who played a crucial role in ending the Iran-Iraq war of 1980 to 1988, died on Wednesday at his home in Lima aged 100.
The emergency measure came after the virus has spread rapidly outside China to more than 70 countries
The total number of known coronavirus cases in India rose sharply to 29 on Wednesday, including 16 Italian tourists who had tested positive for the disease as well as an employee of a digital payments company who had traveled
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