Tag: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

• Friday, August 13th 2021 - 21:04 UTC

  WHO calls on countries to depoliticize investigation into origin of Covid 19

  

  The World Health Organization (WHO) called on countries to depoliticize the investigation into the origin of SARS-CoV-2 and how it jumped to humans, pressing for more raw data to review and suggesting that more can be done within its current framework to track lab safety around the world, including China.

• 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.

• Friday, February 7th 2020 - 08:54 UTC

  Chinese doctor who warned about coronavirus and reprimanded for “spreading rumors” has died of the infection

  

  A Chinese doctor who was among the first to warn publicly about the new coronavirus outbreak - and was reprimanded by authorities for “spreading rumours” - died of the infection early on Friday, his hospital announced.

• Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 08:34 UTC

  World Bank will revise global growth forecast because of coronavirus impact in China

  

  The World Bank will revise its global growth forecast downwards due to the new coronavirus, the president of the multilateral lender said on Tuesday amid fears the epidemic in China will harm global supply chains.

• Thursday, January 23rd 2020 - 08:08 UTC

  Coronavirus outbreak in China: WHO could declare global health emergency

  

  China said it was halting flights and trains from Thursday out of Wuhan, the city of 11 million people at the centre of a deadly SARS-like virus outbreak, as the UN extended emergency talks on the disease.

• Tuesday, January 21st 2020 - 06:43 UTC

  New Coronavirus strain human-to-human transmission confirmed; fears for Chinese New Year celebrations

  

  A SARS-like virus that has spread across China and reached three other Asian nations is contagious between humans, a government expert said, and the World Health Organization announced that a key emergency committee would meet this week to discuss the infections. The news came as Wuhan health authorities reported on Tuesday that a fourth person had died of the coronavirus.