Fifth Italian dies from coronavirus in Europe’s worst flare-up
A fifth person infected with the coronavirus has died in Italy, officials said on Monday as the government battled to contain Europe’s worst outbreak of the...
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Protocols around Coronavirus to be reviewed on Tuesday
Health authorities will on Tuesday review protocols relating to the Coronavirus Covid 19 and revise them if necessary, in light of rising incidents in Italy...
China eases restrictions as other countries report surge in cases
Fears of a coronavirus pandemic grew on Monday after sharp rises in new cases reported in Iran, Italy and South Korea but China relaxed restrictions...
China reports fall in new coronavirus cases but concerns grow over spread elsewhere
China reported a sharp decrease in the number of new deaths and new cases of the coronavirus on Saturday, while its central bank predicted a...
Woman tests negative for coronavirus
A crew member of a private jet has tested negative for Corvid 19 but she has been placed in quarantine for 14 days as a...
Animal party calls for meat-free Stinky Thursday
The Animal party has taken the controversial step in Cyprus of advising people not to eat meat on Stinky Thursday and linking animals to the...
Quarantined passengers disembark ship in Japan (update)
As the virus-stricken Diamond Princess cruise ship is evacuated, Japan faces deepening criticism over its response to the outbreak, tarnishing what was supposed to be...
Kannavia quarantine facility ‘not for coronavirus patients’
The health ministry will use the Sek union holiday village in Kannavia only as a quarantine facility for people with no symptoms of the coronavirus,...
Head of hospital dies in coronavirus epicentre; global economic impact spreads
The head of a leading hospital in China’s central city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, died of the disease on Tuesday while...
Health minister: Cyprus taking every possible measure for coronavirus
Health Minister Constantinos Ioannou reassured the public on Monday that his ministry was taking all the necessary measures regarding the threat of coronavirus and was...
Coronavirus cases rise again in China as recession looms for Japan, Singapore
The number of reported new cases of coronavirus in China’s Hubei province rose on Monday after two days of falls, as authorities imposed tough new restrictions on...
Combating coronavirus: Chinese community in Cyprus takes action
Upon the onset of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, a city of over 11 million population in the central part of China, it has become...
Chinese tourist in France dies of coronavirus, first death in Europe (Update)
An 80-year-old Chinese tourist infected with the coronavirus has died in France, the first fatality in Europe and the fourth outside mainland China from an epidemic that...
China reports 5,000 new coronavirus cases, cruise ship disembarks in Cambodia
China’s coronavirus outbreak showed no sign of peaking with health authorities on Friday reporting more than 5,000 new cases, while passengers on a cruise ship...
Coronavirus death toll leaps in China’s Hubei province, party bosses sacked
The Chinese province at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak reported a record rise in deaths and thousands more cases on Thursday under a new...
China’s new coronavirus cases drop, world still scared (Updated)
China reported on Wednesday its lowest number of new coronavirus cases in two weeks, bolstering a forecast by Beijing’s senior medical adviser for the outbreak there to...
Health ministry issues coronavirus information leaflet in four languages
The health ministry has issued an information leaflet about the coronavirus in four languages, which is being distributed at all hospitals and clinics, at entry...
Chinese GP to be called off due over coronavirus
The Formula One Chinese Grand Prix will not take place as scheduled on April 19 due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, The Times and...
Coronavirus death toll surges as fears grow for Chinese economy
The death toll from the coronavirus epidemic in mainland China soared past 1,000 on Tuesday with a record daily rise in fatalities, while the prolonged...
Woman tests negative for coronavirus (Update2)
The health ministry said Monday a test to determine whether a Chinese woman had contracted the coronavirus came back negative. “The patient, whose clinical status...
