The defining image of the coronavirus outbreak has been pictures of people with their faces covered by masks. And it’s not just in Wuhan, where the Chinese government has made it compulsory for residents to cover their noses and mouths in public. The rapid spread of the virus has prompted some in the UK to … Read more
The Pentagon is setting up quarantines at 11 additional quarantines on military bases in anticipation of an influx of US citizens returning from China and in need of monitoring for coronavirus. So far, 12 people in the US have been diagnosed with coronavirus and the Pentagon had previously agreed to house 1,000 people in 14-day … Read more
What is this virus? The virus has been identified as a new type of coronavirus. Coronaviruses are a large family of pathogens, most of which cause mild lung infections such as the common cold. But coronaviruses can also be deadly. SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, is caused by a coronavirus and killed hundreds of … Read more
The last two flights that the US State Department chartered to evacuate Americans from the coronavirus outbreak’s epicenter in Wuhan, China, have been held after one passenger on each developed symptoms that could indicate they’re infected. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sources told Fox that there were ‘two persons of interest’ had started … Read more
A husband and wife were discharged from a Chicago, Illinois hospital on Thursday night after being treated for coronavirus. The pair were the first case of human-to-human transmission in the US. The husband contracted the virus from his wife, 61, after she traveled to Wuhan, China. Although they described it as ‘an uncomfortable situation,’ the … Read more
North Korea has become the twenty-ninth country or territory to record a case of the killer coronavirus, local media report. A native citizen returned from China before being tested positive for the deadly virus, according to local media. Sources told an English daily newspaper that the woman is from Pyongyang, the capital of the hermit … Read more
A second child among the Wuhan evacuees currently quarantined at March Air Reserve was taken to the hospital Wednesday night after developing a fever, health officials said Thursday. The minor has no other symptoms of coronavirus, but was taken to Riverside University Health System-Medical Center out of ‘an abundance of caution,’ said Jose Arballo Jr, county … Read more
After a desperate attempt to get his family on the first evacuation flight from locked-down Wuhan amid the coronavirus outbreak, a Wisconsin father can at last breathe a sigh of relief that his wife and two young daughters are back stateside. Now, the family just has to wait a long two weeks of quarantine period … Read more
A person in Texas is being tested for coronavirus, Beaumont public health officials announced on Wednesday. The patient is a man who recently went to China and has since developed flu-like symptoms, according to Click2Houston. In addition to the 12 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the US, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is … Read more
Someone who is infected with the Wuhan coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. At least 566 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and more than 28,300 have been infected in at least 28 countries and regions. But experts predict the true number of … Read more
A Texas biotech company says it is working to develop and test a vaccine for the deadly coronavirus spreading from China. iBio, which contracts drug development and manufacturing from pharmaceutical companies, say it is teaming up with Beijing CC-Pharming Ltd for the task. This makes the Bryan, Texas-based company one of the dozens of drugmakers working … Read more
UPS pilots afraid of catching coronavirus while delivering packages in China can now opt out of flying there in union fight win – but they may have to take a sick day to skip a flight UPS pilots can opt out of flying routes into and out of China and be rescheduled on another flight … Read more
Patients who recover from China‘s deadly coronavirus are at risk or relapsing or catching it again, a doctor working in the outbreak has warned. One of the riskiest elements of the coronavirus is that people have no immunity to it because it’s completely new. And although the body is able to become partly immune to … Read more