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Restaurant workers wear protective clothing as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus as they prepare food to sell on the street outside their restaurant. AFP Photo

Cruise ship-'s quarantine questioned as Japanese woman tests positive...

Since Wednesday, about 970 passengers -- who tested negative after the government put the ship under quarantine, have...

23 Feb 2020 12:01 PM IST

In this Friday, Feb. 21, 2020 photo, patients rest in a temporary hospital at Tazihu Gymnasium in Wuhan in central Chinas Hubei province. Chinas leadership sounded a cautious note about the countrys progress in halting the spread of the new virus that has now killed more than 2,200 people, after several days of upbeat messages. (AP)

WHO visits Wuhan amid signs that new cases of coronavirus infection...

For the fifth straight day, recovered patients number more than new arrivals in quarantine

23 Feb 2020 9:42 AM IST

Relatives of Filipino crew members stranded on board the coronavirus-stricken Diamond Princess cruise ship, walk outside a building after meeting with a local employment agency for seafarers in Manila. AFP Photo

Diamond Princess crew-'s families fear for kin as Philippines delays...

While hundreds of travellers have disembarked from the cruise ship, more than 1,000 crew, including 400 Filipinos remain

22 Feb 2020 5:15 PM IST

Medical workers, wearing protective gear, transfer a suspected coronavirus patient to another hospital from Daenam Hospital in Cheongdo county near the southeastern city of Daegu in South Korea on Friday. (Photo: AFP)

Coronavirus death toll climbs to 2,236

New virus cases soar in South Korea and Chinese prisons, 2 more deaths among 13 new cases in Iran.

22 Feb 2020 6:07 AM IST

Irans health ministry today reported two more deaths among 13 new cases of coronavirus in the Islamic republic. AFP Photo

COVID-19 cases soar in South Korea as more die in Iran

The WHO warned nations could face a serious problem if they fail to -"hit hard now-"

21 Feb 2020 6:13 PM IST

COVID-19 patients recuperate in a temporary hospital converted from an exhibition center in Wuhan in central Chinas Hubei province. The hospital, one of the dozen of its kind built in Wuhan, hosts COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms.chinatopix via AP photo

Covid-19: New infections in China decline

Containment of the illness has been a struggle far from the epicenter in central China as a South Korea urged residents...

21 Feb 2020 10:25 AM IST

A man wearing a face mask rides a bicycle to pass the Chinatowns main entrance gate in Incheon, South Korea. AP photo

China virus fear spreads faster than tsunami, triggers stress and...

Governments have not always known how to handle the situation

21 Feb 2020 9:30 AM IST

Medical workers wearing protective gears move a patient suspected of contracting the coronavirus from an ambulance to the Kyungpook National University Hospital in Daegu, South Korea. AP photo

South Korea takes a giant step towards containing virus after first...

2.5 million people asked to stay home after first Coronavirus death

20 Feb 2020 6:00 PM IST

The Diamond Princess cruise ship (back) in quarantine due to fears of the new COVID-19 coronavirus, is seen at the Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama. AFP photo

Indians on quarantined Japan ship infected by Covid-19 number 7

One more Indian on board the cruise ship Diamond Princess quarantined off the coast of Japan was tested positive for...

20 Feb 2020 2:43 PM IST

Members of a police sanitation team spray disinfectant on a bridge as a preventive measure agaist the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Bozhou, in Chinas eastern Anhui province. AFP photo

Too early to say Covid-19 less deadly than SARS: WHO

The death toll rose to 2,004, with most of the deaths in Hubei, where the virus first emerged in Dec before spiralling...

19 Feb 2020 3:47 PM IST

Members of a police sanitation team spray disinfectant as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. AFP Photo

COVID-19 cases jump by two-thirds in one day in South Korea

Korea Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) said in a statement that 20 new coronavirus cases had been...

19 Feb 2020 3:20 PM IST

An unidentified passenger is surrounded by the media after he disembarked from the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship on Wednesday. AP photo

Japan ship quarantine ends, passengers leave Diamond Princess

Results were still pending for some passengers whoâ€™ve been tested for the coronavirus that had infected more than 540...

19 Feb 2020 12:03 PM IST