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China's COVID-19 death toll reaches 2,946 since disease outbreak
Date: 2020-03-03 07:12:31 GMT - China - International - SN:5 - ID:8336768
Chinese health authority said Tuesday it received reports of 125 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection and 31 deaths on Monday on the Chinese mainland. All the deaths were in Hubei Province, according to the National Health ....
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China: Death toll of coronavirus rises to 2,915
Date: 2020-03-02 08:22:48 GMT - China - International - SN:3 - ID:8335090
A total of 202 new cases of the novel coronavirus were confirmed on the Chinese mainland and 42 new deaths were reported Sunday night, according to China's National Health Commission. The total number of confirmed cases on the Chinese mainland ....
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Trump urges US people to remain calm in face of coronavirus outbreak
Date: 2020-03-01 00:51:05 GMT - USA - International - SN:6 - ID:8333363
US President Donald Trump on Saturday urged the nation to remain calm in the face of the novel coronavirus outbreak, saying additional cases in United States were "likely" as his administration announced new travel restrictions aimed at limiting its ....
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WHO increases COVID-19 risk to 'very high', tells governments to 'wake up'
Date: 2020-02-28 23:02:54 GMT - Switzerland - International - SN:14 - ID:8332227
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday increased its coronavirus risk assessment to "very high" as cases outside of China continue to increase. But officials caution the virus can still be contained if the chain of transmission can be broken, ....
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No country should make 'fatal' mistake of ignoring COVID-19: Tedros
Date: 2020-02-28 17:09:34 GMT - Switzerland - International - SN:10 - ID:8332000
All countries should do more to prevent the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus and none should make the "fatal" mistake of assuming that it won’t be affected, said UN health agency chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday. Outside China, there ....
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Lavrov calls for uniting all efforts to prevent further escalation in Syria
Date: 2020-02-28 12:39:44 GMT - Russia - International - SN:7 - ID:8331681
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said it is necessary to unite all efforts to prevent further escalation of tensions in Syria, Sputnik news agency reported Friday. "I would like to support the words of [Luxembourg's Foreign Minister] Jean ....
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Erdogan admits killing of Turkish servicemen in Libya
Date: 2020-02-25 11:16:23 GMT - Turkey - International - SN:5 - ID:8327005
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has admitted that several Turkish servicemen had been killed in Libya, in the battles against the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar. “Several of our heroes were martyred in ....
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2 killed, 12 injured in train derailment in Australia
Date: 2020-02-22 00:36:56 GMT - Australia - International - SN:4 - ID:8322157
Two people have been killed and several others injured after a train derailed near Melbourne, Australia, Sky News reported. Images from the scene showed the carriages had come completely off the tracks - one on its side and others at an angle - ....
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Iran confirms first two coronavirus deaths
Date: 2020-02-20 00:29:46 GMT - Iran - International - SN:3 - ID:8319559
The Iranian Health Ministry confirmed on Wednesday that two persons diagnosed with the coronavirus outbreak have died, The Tehran Times reported. Both cases were in the city of Qom and the patients had been put into isolation, the Iranian daily ....
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Hospital director dies in China's Wuhan
Date: 2020-02-18 07:23:03 GMT - China - International - SN:2 - ID:8316622
The head of a leading hospital in China's central city of Wuhan, the epicenter of a coronavirus outbreak, died of the disease on Tuesday, The New York Times reported quoting state television. Liu Zhiming, the director of Wuhan Wuchang Hospital, ....
