On Thursday, the WHO declared the outbreak a global health emergency and the U.S. confirmed its first human-to-human transmission.
Month: January 2020
The number of coronavirus cases in China has eclipsed 6,060, exceeding the total number of SARS cases in that country during the 2003 epidemic.
Beijing is taking measures like locking down cities housing millions, restricting travel and extending the Lunar New Year holiday.
Economies in Asia will have to brace for a tough year ahead as China deals with an outbreak, analysts and officials warned as travel restrictions hit.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited the city of Wuhan in Hubei province, where the deadly pneumonia-like virus was first identified.
China has quarantined three cities, encompassing about 35 million people, to try to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
An interdisciplinary group of scientists has successfully destroyed tumor cells in mice by using nano-sized copper compounds alongside immunotherapy. Importantly, the tumors did not return after the treatment ceased. According to the World Health Organization, cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide — in 2018, it was responsible for approximately 9.6 million deaths.
U.S. health officials diagnosed a second patient with the China coronavirus — a Chicago woman who returned from Wuhan with the infection.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday said at a press conference the outbreak did not yet constitute a global public health emergency.
The WHO is reconvening Thursday to decide whether the virus should be classified as a global health emergency after coming to a split vote.
“It’s one person coming in from China. We have it under control. It’s going to be just fine,” Trump told CNBC’s Joe Kernen from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Public health officials have confirmed the first U.S. case of a mysterious coronavirus that has already killed at least 6 people and sickened hundreds of others in China, according to two reports. A White House spokesman declined to comment, referring calls to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC did not immediately respond
Medical staff members carry a patient into the Jinyintan hospital, where patients infected by a mysterious SARS-like virus are being treated, in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province on January 18, 2020. STR The outbreak of a new coronavirus stemming from Wuhan, China has killed four people with confirmed cases totaling more than 200 ahead
An elderly man wears a mask while walking past the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, which has been linked to cases of Coronavirus, on January 17, 2020 in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. Getty Images Shares of Chinese drugmakers and face mask-makers surged on Monday morning amid rising concerns over an outbreak of coronavirus spreading to
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