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Coronavirus: Over 2,000 people now infected globally, 56 dead in China
The World Health Organisation (WHO) this week stopped short of calling the outbreak a global health emergency, but some health experts question whether China can continue to contain the epidemic.On Sunday, China confirmed 1,975 cases of patients infected with the new coronavirus as of Jan. 25, while the death toll from the virus has risen to 56, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
China coronavirus afflictions claim 41 lives, nearly 1300 confirmed cases, 237 critical
The virus has spread to Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Nepal, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam and the United States as of Thursday. Japan on Friday reported a second confirmed case.
Coronavirus Spreads To Europe, Three Cases Confirmed In France
“We are in the process of tracing the history of these patients who have tested positive in order to get in touch with the people they have been in contact with,” French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn told reporters..
Non-life insurers can offer standard health policies before April 1
The regulator also said those insurers currently not offering indemnity based health insurance policies will have to offer ‘Aroygya Sanjeevani Policy’ as and when they start selling the former product.
Xi warns Coronavirus ‘accelerating’, China facing ‘grave situation’,Hong Kong declares an ’emergency’
Nearly 300 people were killed by SARS in 2003, a tragedy that left a profound psychological impact on one of the most densely populated places on earth.
Coronavirus: 11 people who returned from China under watch in Kerala, Mumbai
Two people who returned to Mumbai from China have been kept in an isolation ward at Kasturba Hospital, and their blood samples collected to check for the new strain of coronavirus, officials said in Mumbai.
Insys founder John Kapoor sentenced to 5 1/2 years for orchestrating opioid scheme
Kapoor and others were accused of paying millions of dollars in bribes to doctors across the United States to prescribe the company’s highly addictive oral fentanyl spray, known as Subsys. The bribes were paid in the form of fees for sham speaking engagements that were billed as educational opportunities for other doctors.
Coronavirus: Thermal screening of flyers from China begins at 7 airports
According to the alert issued by the MoCA, all travellers who have visited China, particularly through Wuhan during the past 14 days and show symptoms of acute onset of fever, cough, shortness of breath should report to the airport health unit.
China’s mysterious respiratory virus spreads to health workers, different countries
“The risk from this virus causing pandemonium has increased because it is spreading from different countries, and we are now seeing that it can be more easily transmitted from person to person,” said Sanjaya Senanayake, associate professor of medicine at the Australian National University. In comparison with SARS, he said, “the one good factor, I guess, at the moment seems to be the low mortality rate.”
Coronavirus: New disease spreading in Asia revives SARS fears
The outbreak has caused alarm because of the link with SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), which killed 349 people in mainland China and another 299 in Hong Kong in 2002-2003.