Morocco to delay sports, cultural occasions over coronavirus: state media
RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco will postpone sports and cultural events over coronavirus fears, a government committee charged with overseeing the…
Dominican Republic verifies very first case of coronavirus
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - Health authorities in the Dominican Republic said on Sunday that they had confirmed the first case…
Viral economies: On coronavirus impact
The coronavirus is pushing the world into a recession, and India cannot be immune to it The global economy appears…
Abu Dhabi hotels allow some guests to leave after coronavirus scare
DUBAI (Reuters) - Two luxury hotels in Abu Dhabi, which had been in lockdown amid concerns about the coronavirus during…
Iran’s Guards allocate facilities to tackle coronavirus outbreak
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have allocated facilities across the country to help eradicate the new coronavirus, a…
Perth man ends up being very first Australian to pass away after contracting coronavirus
Updated March 01, 2020 17:46:48 An elderly Perth man who spent time on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship has…
US confirms its first death from coronavirus
Updated March 01, 2020 18:37:50 As coronavirus spreads around the world and Australia records its first death from the virus,…
How prepared is the US for a coronavirus outbreak?
Shoppers in Los Angeles buy toilet paper, food and water at a store, as people begin to panic buy and…
Mainland China reports 573 new coronavirus cases on Feb. 29
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - Mainland China reported 573 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Feb. 29, up from 427 the previous day…
Washington state man becomes first U.S. coronavirus fatality
(Reuters) - A Washington state man in his 50s with underlying health issues became the United States’ first fatality from…
Trump states U.S. considering limitations at Mexican border over coronavirus
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is considering shutting the country’s southern border with Mexico to control the spread of…
Global downturn looms as countries struggle to contain coronavirus outbreak
GENEVA/BEIJING (Reuters) - The coronavirus spread further on Friday, with cases reported for the first time in at least six…
Factbox: Countries evacuating nationals from China coronavirus areas
(Reuters) - A growing number of countries around the world are evacuating or planning to evacuate diplomatic staff and citizens…
Indians among travelers, crew on board Japan cruise liner as new cases of coronavirus emerge
An unspecified number of Indians were among the nearly 3,000 passengers and crew members on board a cruise ship quarantined…
Sony and Amazon take out of Mobile World Congress due to coronavirus risk
Sony and Amazon are the latest companies to cancel their presence at Mobile World Congress 2020 due to the new…
Modi offers India’s assistance to China to handle coronavirus break out
PTI New Delhi , February 09, 2020 17:02 IST Updated: February 09, 2020 17:03 IST Prime Minister Narendra Modi with…
Where’s Xi Jinping? China’s leader commands coronavirus fight from safe heights
An entrance to the Wuhan City Central Hospital in Wuhan.WUHAN: President Xi Jinping strode onstage before an adoring audience in…
Spanish authorities confirm Briton is country’s second coronavirus case
MADRID (Reuters) - A British man has tested positive for coronavirus in Mallorca, the second case of the fast-spreading new…
Malaysia expands China tourist ban as coronavirus spreads
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia has expanded a ban on visitors from China to include Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces, after…
United States and Japanese guys in Wuhan end up being very first non-Chinese coronavirus fatalities
Posted February 09, 2020 06:23:17 An American in the Chinese city of Wuhan has died of the new coronavirus, the…
Dozens of Asia trade fairs, conferences postponed amid coronavirus fears
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - More than two dozen large trade fairs and industry conferences in Asia have been postponed because of…
Japanese man hospitalized with pneumonia in Wuhan dies, coronavirus suspected
TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man hospitalized with pneumonia in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of a coronavirus…
Royal Caribbean prohibits Chinese passport holders as coronavirus infections increase
Updated February 08, 2020 16:12:30 A major cruise line has banned citizens from China, regardless of when they were last…
US citizen dies of coronavirus in Wuhan
BEIJING: A US citizen has died from the new coronavirus at the epicentre of the epidemic in China, the US…
Cruise line prohibits China residents; Outrage as doctor who sounded coronavirus alarm passes away
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A major cruise line on Friday took the extraordinary step of banning citizens of China regardless of…
China’s Hubei province reports 81 new deaths from coronavirus on Feb. 7
BEIJING (Reuters) - The number of deaths in China’s central Hubei province from a coronavirus outbreak had risen by 81…
Factbox: Events affected due to coronavirus epidemic
(Reuters) - The following is a list of international sports events affected by the coronavirus, which has killed almost 640…
Carmakers close Chinese factories because of coronavirus
(Reuters) - Automakers and parts suppliers have shut factories in China, in line with government guidelines, or have flagged a…
Factbox: Airlines suspend China flights due to coronavirus outbreak
(Reuters) - Airlines are suspending flights to China in the wake of the new coronavirus outbreak. Below are details (in…
Indian scientist in Australia brings world closer to a coronavirus vaccine
Prof SS Vasan (right) with a team member at the CSIRO lab in Australia, where the virus is being grownIn…
Wall Street strikes brand-new highs as China relocates to limit coronavirus impact
(Reuters) - U.S. stocks gained for a fourth straight session on Thursday and Wall Street’s main indexes hit record highs…
All 645 Indian evacuees from Wuhan test unfavorable for coronavirus
All 645 evacuees from Wuhan, China, have tested negative for novel coronavirus, the Union Health Ministry said in a release…
Chinese doctor who first warned about coronavirus outbreak dies
BEIJING: Chinese doctor Li Wenliang, one of the eight whistle-blowers who warned other medics of the coronavirus outbreak but were…
All 645 evacuated from Wuhan test negative for coronavirus
People who have returned from China queueing for food at a isolation facility of the Indo-Tibetan Border Polic...Read MoreNEW DELHI:…
Chinese physician who warned of break out dies from coronavirus infection
Posted February 07, 2020 05:10:26 A Chinese doctor who tried to warn people about the dangers of the new coronavirus…
Karaoke and aerobics: Island life for Indonesia’s coronavirus evacuees
Updated February 07, 2020 02:38:42 More than 200 Indonesian nationals have spent their first few days in isolation on a…
Australian couple going ‘stir crazy’ — what it’s like being confined to cabin on coronavirus cruise ship
Updated February 06, 2020 15:15:50 Queensland couple Paul and Coralie Williamson will spend the next fortnight confined to their cabin…
Canadian military town prepares for coronavirus evacuees
TRENTON, Ontario (Reuters) - A small town in central Canada that is host to the country’s largest air force base…
Ten passengers on cruise liner docked in Japan test positive for coronavirus
TOKYO (Reuters) - Ten people onboard a cruise liner docked in the Japanese port of Yokohama have tested positive for…
Reserve Bank leaves rates of interest on hold despite bushfires and coronavirus
Posted February 04, 2020 14:31:15 The Reserve Bank has left interest rates on hold at its first meeting of the…
China states U.S. must not overreact on coronavirus break out
FILE PHOTO: Hua Chunying, spokeswoman of China's Foreign Ministry, speaks at a regular news conference in Beijing, China, January 6,…
Top Apple analyst cuts iPhone shipment forecast by 10% due to coronavirus
A Chinese employee wears a protective mask as he sits in the showroom of an Apple Store after it closed…
Sports events affected due to coronavirus epidemic
(Reuters) - The following is a list of international sports events affected by the coronavirus, which has killed over 300…
Some exhibitors pull out of Singapore Airshow due to coronavirus
SYDNEY/MONTREAL (Reuters) - Some aerospace companies including business jet manufacturers Textron Inc and General Dynamics Corp’s Gulfstream division said they…
The Taipei Game Show Is Cancelled Amidst Growing Global Concern Over Spread Of The Coronavirus
Next week, gamers were eagerly awaiting news that would be coming out of the Taipei Game Show in Taipei, Taiwan.…
No space for panic: On novel coronavirus
February 01, 2020 00:02 IST Updated: February 03, 2020 01:19 IST February 01, 2020 00:02 IST Updated: February 03, 2020…