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Grand Princess ship raises public health alarms as coronavirus cases spread
Cruise Lines are to step up in protecting passengers and crew after a meeting with Vice President Mike Pence concerning COVID-19. Pence added that the 1,100-member crew will be quarantined on board the ship, and will "not need to disembark". [Full Article...]
Sixty-nine staff and students to self-isolate as Sydney school reopens
The two new cases are a man in his 60s who recently returned from Italy and a second man in his 40s who is a known close contact of a previously confirmed case. Two patients he visited in a Malvern nursing home are also in isolation. Twenty-one passengers on board the ship have tested positive for the coronavirus. [Full Article...]
Chinese mainland reports 25 new COVID-19 cases outside Hubei on Mar
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China also recorded 24 cases in people who had arrived from overseas, including 17 in Gansu, a northwest Chinese province. Roughly 78 million Chinese migrant rural workers have returned to work, accounting for 60% of the total who returned home for the Chinese New Year holiday, government officials said Saturday. [Full Article...]
Chinese mainland reports 25 new COVID-19 cases outside Hubei
Although the rapidly rising trend of infection has been contained in Wuhan, the city as well as the province of Hubei sill face a daunting task of epidemic prevention and control, Ding added. "We have to assume the virus will continue to have the capacity to spread", the SCMP quoted Ryan as saying in Geneva on Friday. "It's a false hope to say, yes, that it will disappear like the flu... [Full Article...]
Seven more confirmed cases of Coronavirus - including two females in the West
Ireland is still in the containment phase of dealing with this outbreak he added, with public health doctors working to ensure such containment measures are effective, and track people who have had contact with those infected by the Coronavirus. [Full Article...]
South Korea confirms 174 new coronavirus cases, total to 6,767
Australia became the latest country to impose travel restrictions on South Koreans, with nearly 100 nations now limiting arrivals from the East Asian country which reported 438 new coronavirus cases on Thursday for a total of 5,766. As new cases dwindle in China, attention has turned to potential infections arriving from overseas. The coronavirus , which emerged in China, has spread to more t... [Full Article...]
First presumptive coronavirus case reported in Alberta
Secondly, the person must also have recently travelled outside of Canada. She is recovering in isolation still at home. The Grand Princess cruise ship passes the Golden Gate Bridge as it arrives from Hawaii in San Francisco Feb. About seven people are in hospital, but that does not necessarily mean those patients are severely ill, she said. "If they're feeling well, we would not recommend that t... [Full Article...]
Amber Rudd's daughter rushes to her defence over 'no platforming'
Her barring came after Oxford historian Professor Selina Todd was blocked from appearing at a feminist festival last weekend following threats from trans-rights activists. The incident, which has created an uproar in the United Kingdom and ignited fierce public debate on whether universities have become too restrictive of free speech, encouraged the UN's United Kingdom national brach for women to ... [Full Article...]