Tag: COVIC-19 coronavirus

• Wednesday, March 11th 2020 - 10:09 UTC

  Paraguay reports that five cases have tested positive to Covid-19, and 25 are under quarantine

  

  Paraguay confirmed that five cases have tested positive to Covid-19, and announced it was closing all schools and universities, public and private, and suspending all public and private activities that involve crowding people, for the next fifteen days.

• Tuesday, March 10th 2020 - 18:05 UTC

  Madrid suspends classes at all schools and universities

  

  Madrid has announced that it will suspend classes at all schools and universities across the capital in an attempt to contain the Coronavirus (COVID-19). The measures come into effect this Wednesday 11th March, so parents have at least 24 hours to make alternative arrangements. It will affect well over a million students and one hundred thousand teachers across Madrid.

• Tuesday, March 3rd 2020 - 08:36 UTC

  Brazil confirms second case of coronavirus: patient who arrived from Italy

  

  Brazil’s Health Ministry over the weekend confirmed the country’s second case of the fast-spreading new coronavirus, diagnosed in a 32-year-old patient in São Paulo who had recently visited Italy and arrived on Thursday.

• Sunday, March 1st 2020 - 13:51 UTC

  Gibraltar bans tourists arriving from sixteen “at risk” coronavirus countries

  

  Gibraltar has started banning people entering from coronavirus-hit countries. In a document sent to the Japanese embassy in London, Gibraltar said it “may deny” entry to people who have visited any of 16 “dangerous countries” which have been hit by coronavirus.

• Sunday, March 1st 2020 - 13:19 UTC

  Hyundai closes a factory in South Korea because of coronavirus

  

  Hyundai Motor shut down a factory in South Korea on Friday after a worker tested positive for the new coronavirus, disrupting production of popular models such as Palisade sport utility vehicle.

• Friday, February 28th 2020 - 07:22 UTC

  Argentine health minister says no Covid-19 cases in the country; all suspects proved negative

  

  Argentina's Health minister Gines Gonzalez García reported on Wednesday from Cordoba that the 21 cases of suspected Covid-19 finally proved negative and underlined that all protocols to face the epidemics are active and in place to try and contain any outbreak.

• Wednesday, February 26th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  First case of Covid-19 confirmed in Sao Paulo, Brazil

  

  Brazil's Ministry of Health, in conjunction with the state and municipal departments of São Paulo, has confirmed a case of Coronavirus disease in the municipality of São Paulo. The business man had travelled this month to the north of Italy.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 06:06 UTC

  The cruise industry is resilient, but it has cancelled trips and rerouted trips

  

  Coronavirus concerns have pushed the US$ 45 billion cruise line industry to cancel trips and reroute ships as it struggles to contain the impact from fearful travellers. But experts say the industry will bounce back after the outbreak is contained.

• Saturday, February 15th 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  COVID-19 death toll surges past 1.500 and 66.000 infected

  

  The death toll from China's new coronavirus epidemic surged past 1,500 on Saturday after 139 more people died in Hubei province, the epicenter of the outbreak. The province's health commission also reported 2,420 new cases of the COVID-19 strain, about half the number from the previous day.

• Friday, February 14th 2020 - 20:58 UTC

  “Isolating cases and quarantining contacts is not going to stop COVIC-19”, infectious scientists warn

  

  As the number of COVIC-19 coronavirus cases jumps dramatically in China, a top infectious-disease scientist warns that things could get far worse: Two-thirds of the world's population could catch it.