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The move comes after the World Health Organisation warned that the pandemic is a 'defining global health crisis of our time'.

Mexican health minister explained that 12 citizens en route to San Salvador from Chicago had raised suspicions because they were wearing protective masks but tested negative.

University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research Director David Paterson said the two drugs, which were used in test tubes, stopped coronavirus in its tracks and a clinical trial on humans was ready to begin.

Prime Minister Modi had reached out to the eight-member regional grouping to chalk out a strong strategy to combat the virus outbreak.

Ren Zhiqiang, a member of China's ruling Communist Party and a former top executive of state-controlled property developer Huayuan Real Estate Group, has not been contactable since March 12, his friends said.

Poland has already shut down its schools, museums and cinemas. Neighbouring Slovakia and the Czech Republic have also closed their borders to foreign travellers.

Ekaterini Sakellaropoulou will take her oath in parliament, lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and go to the presidential mansion for a handover ceremony.

It is the second time in recent years that the climbing season has been disrupted.

However, some questioned why the memorial event on Sunday, which would pack thousands of people into an arena, was still going ahead after Ardern and other officials chose to cancel a festival in Auckland celebrating Pacific culture due to fears over coro...

Some Republicans worried that the measures were too little, too late for an administration that for several weeks minimised the risk of the COVID-19 respiratory disease caused by the virus that has killed at least 39 Americans.

Previously sealed court documents reveal that in the days following reports about how he used his power to sexually assault women, Weinstein made a desperate plea for help in emails to two dozen influential people, including the billionaires Michael Bloom...

It was not until February 29, the date of the first US death and more than a month after the first confirmed US case, that the Food and Drug Administration lifted a ban on state laboratories developing their own kits based on the WHO's tests.

The Xinjia Hotel in Licheng district in Quanzhou city was used to quarantine and observe people who had come to the province during the novel coronavirus prevention and control and had come in contact with the virus patients. The hotel collapsed on Saturd...

People infected with novel coronavirus take five days on average to start showing symptoms of the virus, disease analysts at Johns Hopkins University said on Monday, in the largest such study of known cases worldwide.

Earlier, Trump downplayed the threat of the disease, which has recorded more than 600 cases of the COVID-19 virus, and 25 deaths.

The restrictions will take effect on Tuesday and like those in northern Italy will last until April 3.