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Beijing: As a mysterious new virus enveloped central China's Wuhan early this year, Liu Zhiming mobilised all the resources of his hospital in the city's Wuchang district to deal with the thousands of sick people arriving daily, threatening to overwhelm the local health care system. Liu Zhiming, the director of Wuchang Hospital in Wuhan. That dedication […]
The 2020 Tokyo Marathon has been canceled for all non-professional runners due to the coronavirus. The Tokyo Marathon Foundation said in a statement Monday that after a case of the deadly virus was confirmed in Tokyo, the decision was made to limit the number of participants in the annual race. The race will now only […]
A British honeymooner who caught coronavirus on a cruise ship says he is being released from hospital after successful treatment for the SARS-like illness. Newlywed Alan Steele, 58, has been in a Tokyo hospital for almost two weeks and his wife, Wendy Marshall Steele, is still trapped on the Diamond Princess. Mr Steele, from Wolverhampton, […]
APPLE has confirmed fears around the impact the coronavirus pandemic is having on its sales and production. The $205.5 billion mega-corporation is seeing its revenue blighted by the virus closing its factories and stores on top of already weakening demand by Chinese consumers. Apple announced on Monday that it was cutting its sales expectations due […]
Hundreds of American evacuees have landed in the US after an almost two-week quarantine on a cruise in Japan – only to be sent straight back into isolation. The first of two chartered flights arrived in California on Monday morning to take Diamond Princess evacuees to a former hotel at the Travis Air Force Base, […]
A BRITISH tourist stranded on a coronavirus-hit cruise ship in Japan has slammed the UK government for not bringing him home. David Abel, who has been isolated aboard the Diamond Princess since Feb 5, said he’s “never felt less loved by my own country.” Read our coronavirus live blog for all the latest news and […]
First coronavirus death in Europe: Chinese tourist, 80, DIES in French hospital one month flying to Paris from virus-ravaged Hubei province with the bug French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn confirmed the death of the elderly man He travelled to the country from the virus-hit Hubei province on January 16 Victim leaves behind a daughter battling […]
The deadly coronavirus outbreak could be seasonal and it could disappear when warmer months arrive, an expert can reveal. While scientists and virus experts are trying to develop a cure for the pneumonia-like virus, many believed the virus shares a vast similarity to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Despite the two viruses coming from […]
A CORONAVIRUS victim said “I thought I’d die” and suffered pain “every part of my body” during a three week battle with the killer bug. The student, 21, going under the pseudonym of Tiger Ye, fell ill at his home in Wuhan – ground zero for the disease. VIRUS HELL Tiger knew something was wrong […]
Coronavirus spreads to Egypt as country confirms a ‘foreigner’ is now infected with the disease in Africa’s first case Egypt confirmed first case of coronavirus, making it the 28th country to do so No details have been given of the patient, other than the fact the are a ‘foreigner’ The individual has been placed in […]