GENEVA (Reuters) – The first vaccine targeting China’s coronavirus could be available in 18 months, “so we have to do everything today using available weapons”, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva on Tuesday. He said the virus had been named COVID-19, explaining that it was important to avoid stigma and that …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – China’s coronavirus outbreak poses a “very grave threat for the rest of the world”, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday in an appeal for sharing virus samples and speeding up research into drugs and vaccines. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was addressing the start of a two-day …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Huanggang city, one of the hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak, is still facing a severe virus situation and a lack of medical supplies, its Communist Party boss said on Tuesday. Huanggang is located in the central province of Hubei near to Wuhan, believed to be the epicentre of the outbreak. …
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There are now 42,968 confirmed coronavirus cases and at least 1,018 deaths, according to the World Health Organization. The 13th case of coronavirus in the U.S. was reported Monday in San Diego. Health officials told The Wall Street Journal that the individual had been evacuated to San Diego on a U.S. flight out of Wuhan, …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin met Igor Sechin, his “energy tsar”, on Tuesday, the Kremlin said, but it gave no indication on whether Moscow is willing to accept an OPEC+ proposal to further curb oil production. Energy Minister Alexander Novak said that Russia was still studying proposed deeper oil output cuts by OPEC …
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Ray Dalio says the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on markets has been exaggerated and is likely to be short lived. Investor concerns over the pandemic “probably had a bit of an exaggerated effect on the pricing of assets because of the temporary nature of that, so I would expect more of a rebound,” Dalio, …
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The coronavirus epidemic could spread to about two-thirds of the world’s population if it cannot be controlled, according to Hong Kong’s leading public health epidemiologist. His warning came after the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said recent cases of coronavirus patients who had never visited China could be the “tip of the iceberg”. …
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BEIJING (AP) — After nearly a week of roaming China’s epidemic-struck city, filming the dead and the sickened in overwhelmed hospitals, the strain of being hounded by both the new virus and the country’s dissent-quelling police started to tell. Chen Qiushi looked haggard and disheveled in his online posts, an almost unrecognizable shadow of the …
Republican senator suggests ‘worse than Chernobyl’ coronavirus could’ve come from Chinese ‘superlaboratory’ Republican Sen. Tom Cotton suggested that Chinese officials misled the public on the origins of the novel coronavirus that has killed at least 362 people and infected more than 17,400 others, saying it may have originated in a “superlaboratory.” At a Senate Armed …
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Coronavirus death toll tops SARS as China goes back to work Factories in China will slowly begin getting back online tomorrow following an extended Lunar New Year break that saw two-thirds of China’s economy stay closed last week. Meanwhile, the death toll from the new coronavirus outbreak has now surpassed that of the SARS epidemic …
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