coronavirus

Coronavirus scare: 6 under home quarantine in Mizoram

10:07 pm February 9, 2020

Aizawl: The Mizoram government has placed six students, who had recently returned from China, under home quarantine as a part of precautionary measures in the wake of coronavirus outbreak in the neighbouring country, officials said on Sunday. Blood samples of two among the six have been sent to the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric […]

Concern over lack of protective gears for healthcare professionals

Coronavirus: 15 Kerala students stranded in China’s Hubei reach Kochi

3:23 pm February 8, 2020

Kochi: Fifteen students from the state who were stranded in Hubei province of China following the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus have landed at the Cochin International Airport Limited and undergone a thermal screening for the infection, airport officials said on Saturday. The students travelled to Bangkok from Kunming Airport and then took an Air […]

Death toll rises to 722 in China coronavirus; 86 died in single day

2:49 pm February 8, 2020

Beijing: The death toll in China’s novel coronavirus outbreak has sharply risen to 722 with 86 new mortalities in a single day, mostly in the worst-affected Hubei province, while the total number of confirmed cases jumped to 34,546, Chinese health officials said on Saturday. Eighty-six deaths were reported in mainland China with 3,399 fresh cases […]

New virus cases in UK, Germany, Italy put Europe total at 31

2:28 pm February 7, 2020

London: Britain, Germany and Italy have announced more cases of the new virus from China, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Europe to 31. In Germany, all but two cases are related to auto parts supplier Webasto, whose headquarters near Munich was visited by a Chinese colleague. Germany’s 13th confirmed case of the […]

China readies thousands of new hospital beds in virus outbreak epicentre

1:38 pm February 5, 2020

Beijing: Hundreds of empty beds lined an exhibition centre converted into a makeshift hospital at the epicentre of China’s deadly virus epidemic on Tuesday, awaiting coronavirus patients. Authorities are scrambling to provide facilities, beds and medical treatment for an influx of sick people in Wuhan in central Hubei province, the ground-zero of China’s fight against […]