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French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner stands on the door steps of the French Interior Ministry in Paris, France March 13, 2020. © Ludovic Marin/Pool via REUTERS France will deploy 100,000 police to enforce a lockdown ordered by President Emmanuel Macron aimed at curbing the coronavirus outbreak, the country’s interior minister said on Monday, and fixed checkpoints will […]

Test, test, test”. That was the message from the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday as it urged countries to check more people for COVID-19. “The most effective way to prevent infections and save lives is breaking the chains of transmission,” said Tedros Adhanom, director-general of WHO. “And to do that we must test and […]

Men wearing protective suits spray disinfectant at a mosque amid the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Adana, March 12, 2020. (Photo by İHA)  The Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), Turkey’s top religious authority, has announced a nationwide ban on prayer gatherings, including Friday prayers, in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Mosques will remain […]

Employee Philipp Hoffmann, of German biopharmaceutical company CureVac, demonstrates research workflow on a vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a laboratory in Tuebingen, Germany, March 12, 2020. Picture taken on March 12, 2020 [Andreas Gebert/Reuters] Even if the research goes well, a vaccine would not be available for widespread use for 12 to 18 […]

Massive lines ballooned across several U.S. airports this weekend as European travelers made a mad dash for home — a situation created by the quick rollout of the Trump administration’s European travel ban and exacerbated by chronic airport staffing shortages. Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said on Sunday evening that the problems had been […]

China has sent 7 flights to bring back 1,101 overseas Chinese in countries hit hard by COVID-19, authority says. [Photo/Xinhua] China’s civil aviation authority has so far sent seven flights to bring back a total of 1,101 overseas Chinese in countries hit hard by the novel coronavirus, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China. […]

Italy Virus Outbreak   –   Copyright  AP Photo/Paolo Santalucia  There are now more confirmed cases of coronavirus globally than there are in China. At least 88,000 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed globally, compared with 81,000 in China, according to an updated count of cases by researchers at Johns Hopkins University. It comes as deaths related to the virus […]

Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr Anthony Fauci speaks during a news briefing on the Trump administration’s responseto the coronavirus at the White House in Washington, D.C. on March 15, 2020. © Joshua Roberts, Reuters The medical impact of the new coronavirus is coming into sharper focus as it continues its […]

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says knee-jerk reactions to the novel coronavirus will not keep people safe, as he defended Canada’s decision not to close its borders to foreign nationals coming from regions where the outbreak is spreading. Misinformation being spread about the virus, which can cause a respiratory disease known as COVID-19, is having negative impacts on […]

President Xi Jinping visits Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan, Central China’s Hubei province, March 10, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING – An article by President Xi Jinping on providing strong scientific and technological support for winning the battle against novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) will be published Monday on the Qiushi Journal, a flagship magazine of the Communist Party of […]