Tag: epidemic

• Friday, January 31st 2020 - 08:52 UTC

  Coronavirus: US warns its citizens not to travel to China, listed at same level as Afghanistan and Iraq

  

  The U.S. government warned Americans not to travel to China as the death toll from a new coronavirus reached 213 on Friday and the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global health emergency.

• Friday, January 31st 2020 - 08:25 UTC

  Coronavirus and current account deficit hit the Brazilian Real against the dollar

  

  Brazil’s currency the Real hit a two-month low against the dollar on Thursday, slumping to within sight of its record low under a wave of global risk aversion on fears over the coronavirus outbreak and its diminishing yield appeal.

• Thursday, January 30th 2020 - 08:09 UTC

  The political responsibility of Beijing in the spread of the coronavirus

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – In an emergency, the good thing about a dictatorship is it can respond very fast. The bad thing is it won’t respond at all until the dictator-in-chief says it should. All the little dictators who flourish in this sort of system won’t risk their positions by passing bad news up the line until the risk of being blamed for delay outweighs the risk of being blamed for the emergency in the first place.

• Tuesday, January 28th 2020 - 07:24 UTC

  China reports 106 dead from the rapid spreading coronavirus and 4.500 confirmed cases

  

  China said on Tuesday that 106 people had died from a new coronavirus that is spreading across the country, up from the previous toll of 81. The number of total confirmed cases in China rose to 4,515 as of Jan 27, the National Health Commission said in a statement, up from 2,835 reported a day earlier.

• Monday, January 27th 2020 - 08:17 UTC

  China expands travel restrictions and prolongs Luna Year holiday to contain coronavirus epidemic

  

  China expanded drastic travel restrictions on Monday and prolonged a public holiday to contain an epidemic that has killed 80 people and infected more than 2,300, as several countries prepared to evacuate their citizens from a quarantined city at the outbreak's epicenter.

• Tuesday, July 23rd 2019 - 09:12 UTC

  Ebola experimental vaccines trigger cabinet dispute in Congo

  

  
Congo's health minister, Oly Ilunga, resigned on Monday in protest at the presidency's announcement last week that it was stripping his team of control over the response to the Ebola outbreak.