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A first in Europe. Italy announced on Saturday the isolation for about two weeks of a dozen municipalities in northern Italy, after the discovery of dozens of cases of contamination with the
Ticino is concerned about the spread of the coronavirus after the first cases in northern Italy. The cantonal emergency hospital services have already responded. The situation and its development are being analyzed, Ticino
A second person, who tested positive for the new coronavirus, died in Italy where around thirty cases of contamination have been identified so far, including more than 25 in Lombardy (region of
Spotted in China and reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on December 31, 2019, the SARS-CoV-2 virus (which causes Covid-19 disease) has since infected tens of thousands of people (75,000 cases
China recorded its lowest net new coronavirus cases in nearly a month following a revision to Hubei province's counting methodology, with the National Health Commission reporting a net increase of only 394
Two elderly passengers who were evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Yokohama, Japan, have died from coronavirus, the first fatalities among the more than 621 people infected aboard the vessel.
British pensioners David and Sally Abel spent weeks documenting their quarantine on the coronavirus-stricken Diamond Princess cruise ship via YouTube, keeping a public video diary with characteristic English humor. They were among
The International Committee of the Red Cross suspended operations and team movements in Kaga-Bandoro in the Central African Republic's north-central Nana-Grebizi region after a series of security incidents endangering its staff. The
Three men armed with knives robbed a delivery truck driver of toilet paper worth more than HK$1,000 in Hong Kong's Mong Kok district as coronavirus-driven panic buying emptied supermarket shelves across the
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases on the Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined near Yokohama rose to 355, Japanese health officials announced Sunday, making the ship the largest coronavirus cluster outside mainland
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