Tag: China

Shanghai, March 17 (Reuters) - The rest of the world should learn from China and follow the principles of early detection, early quarantine and early treatment in order to halt the global spread of the coronavirus, the official China Daily said in an editorial on Tuesday. Though the coronavirus was first discovered last year in the city of Wuhan, where ...

March 12 (Al Jazeera) - With the rapid spread of the coronavirus beyond China, the president of the United States is hoping that spring temperatures will halt the contagion in its tracks the same way that common cold strains abate by summer. "You know, in theory when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away, that's true," US President Donald Trump said ...

London/Rome, March 11 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said for the first time on Wednesday that it now sees the coronavirus outbreak as a pandemic. “We are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction,” Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva on Wednesday. “We have therefore ...

Tokyo, March 9 (Reuters) - Oil prices plummeted around 30% on Monday, with U.S. oil heading for its biggest loss on record, after Saudi Arabia slashed prices and set plans for a dramatic increase in crude production in April. Prices fell by as much as a third following Saudi Arabia’s move to start a price war after Russia balked at ...

Male, March 8 (Reuters) - The Maldives has curbed movement on several resort islands, authorities said on Sunday (March 8), after the country reported its first two cases of coronavirus. The two infected people, who are both staff at the Kuredu Island Resort, tested positive late on Saturday. They are believed to have caught the disease from an Italian tourist ...

Amsterdam, March 6 (Reuters) - An 86-year-year old man infected with the coronavirus died in the Netherlands on Friday, the country’s first known fatality from the epidemic, the National Health Institute said. He died in hospital in the port city of Rotterdam. The Netherlands reported its first coronavirus infection on Feb. 27. As of Thursday, there were 82 confirmed cases ...

New Delhi, March 6 (Reuters) - Bhutan said on Friday it had banned the entry of tourists for two weeks after it confirmed its first case of the coronavirus, in a tourist who arrived from neighboring India. The tiny Himalayan kingdom, which is heavily reliant on high-end tourism for foreign exchange, said a 79-year-old American who entered by air from ...

Douala, March 6 (Reuters) - Cameroon’s health ministry on Friday confirmed its first case of coronavirus, a 58-year-old French citizen who arrived in the capital Yaounde on Feb. 24. It said the man has been quarantined in the city’s Central Hospital. “All measures have been taken by the government to contain potential risks of the virus spreading,” it said in ...

Belgrade, March 6 (Reuters) - Serbia has confirmed its first case of the coronavirus, its Health Minister Zlatibor Loncar said on Friday. He told reporters that a 43-year-old man, who traveled to Budapest, was diagnosed with virus and that he feels well.

March 5 (Business Insider) - The 25th James Bond movie, "No Time to Die," has hit another roadblock. The movie's release date has been pushed back from April to November "after careful consideration and thorough evaluation of the global theatrical marketplace," the studios MGM and Universal, and franchise producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, announced on Tuesday. It will now be ...