Tag: Crisis

Beijing, Jan 23 (Reuters) - China put on lockdown on Thursday two cities at the epicenter of a new coronavirus outbreak that has killed 17 people and infected nearly 600, as health authorities around the world scramble to prevent a global pandemic. Health officials fear the transmission rate will accelerate as hundreds of millions of Chinese travel at home and ...

Jan 23 (IndiaToday) - The outbreak of a new 'mysterious' virus named 2019-novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China has raised alarm bells among health officials the world over as number of people infected and the resultant death toll continues to rise. As on January 21, six people have died and close to 291 infected by 2019-nCoV, a new strain of coronaviruses ...