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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe answers a question during an upper house Diet session in Tokyo on Wednesday.  Photo: REUTERS/Issei Kato  Japan is struggling to hold the line against the coronavirus and is on the brink of crisis with medical experts particularly worried about preparations in Tokyo, officials said on Wednesday, raising the prospect of emergency lockdowns. Japan […]

Italy’s lockdown may have saved 38,000 lives according to experts at Imperial College London. The drastic measures adopted in Europe to curb the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic may have already prevented up to 120,000 deaths in 11 countries across the continent, including 38,000 in Italy. This is estimated in a 35-page report by a team of […]

More voters say the Trump administration isn’t doing enough to combat the coronavirus outbreak, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. The survey, conducted immediately before President Donald Trump announced a 30-day extension of his physical and social distancing guidelines “to slow the spread” of Covid-19, shows 47 percent of voters feel the administration isn’t […]

A passenger arriving from Germany enters into a government-designated quarantine facility in Gwangju, Tuesday. / Yonhap The number of Coronavirus infections is fast approaching 10,000 as cluster outbreaks and imported cases continue to increase, health authorities said Tuesday. According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), 125 new infections were confirmed Monday, […]

Official figures released by the Spanish Health Ministry at 12 noon on Tuesday 31 March confirm 94,417 known cases of Coronavirus (Covid-19) in Spain, 9,222 more than yesterday. 8,189 people have died from the pandemic (up by 849 from yesterday – the worst figure to date for a 24 hour period in Spain). Monday’s figure in Spain was a rise of 812 deaths compared to Sunday, and Sunday’s figure was a rise of 838 deaths compared […]

Italian health minister Roberto Sperenza said that the government is working towards extending the country’s “containment measures until at least Easter”, reports Italian news agency ANSA. “The government will move in this direction,” said Speranza, following a meeting of a scientific advisory committee on 30 March. No date for the end of the lockdown was […]

Medical staff at the IHU Mediterranee Infection Institute in Marseille show packets of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine drugs. © Gérard Julien, AFP France’s drug safety agency warned on Monday of potentially serious side effects of treatments being tested against the new coronavirus after the deaths of three people possibly linked to self-medication.  Another two dozen patients have […]

  Navy Hospital Ship USNS Comfort travels up the Hudson River as it heads to Pier 90 as the coronavirus pandemic continues to overwhelm medical infrastructure Monday. Docked on the West Side of Manhattan, the hospital ship will provide another thousand beds for non-COVID-19 patients.Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images “In this battle, the troops are our healthcare […]

An elderly man covers his face with a mask as he picks up his lunch at John Knox Village, a retirement community in Pompano Beach some 40 miles north of Miami, Florida on March 21, 2020. Deborah Barfield Berry USA TODAY Published 11:46 AM EDT Mar 30, 2020 WASHINGTON — Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans have many underlying health […]

Al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-linked group, wants to overthrow Somalia’s government [File: Al Jazeera] A local official in northeastern Somalia has been killed in a suicide bomb blast claimed by the al-Shabab armed group, according to police and medical sources. Abdisalan Hassan Hersi, governor of Nugaal region, succumbed to his wounds after being rushed to hospital in Garowe, the […]