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London COVID-19 patient attended conference with 250 people

All attendees have now been advised to monitor their health and to "stay indoors and avoid contact with other people" if they develop symptoms of cough, fever, ...

Death Toll From Coronavirus in China's Hubei Province Reaches 1,921

Five others have been reported in Hong Kong , Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines and France, making the global total 2,009. The number of new confirmed cases i...

Demi Lovato says unresolved eating disorder led to 2018 relapse

Watch Demi Lovato's appearance on the podcast... I believed the previous few years was restoration from an consuming dysfunction, when it really was simply ut...

FA Cup: Delayed third round games to raise awareness about mental health

The partnership will signpost to the free, online "Every Mind Matters" resources and 'Your Mind Plan' tool , which fans can use to create a personal mental hea...

No new coronavirus cases under investigation in Ontario, chief medical officer says

The director at the hospital at the center of the coronavirus outbreak in China has died from the disease; Greg Palkot reports on the latest infection numbers...

US flu deaths hit 14,000, haven’t peaked yet, CDC says

In those seven days, there were 222 reported cases of Influenza A, Influenza B and unspecified flu cases - at a rate of 46.62 per 100,000 residents - data fro...

World Health Organization warns against novel coronavirus 'blanket measures'

More than 72,000 people have been infected in China and hundreds more overseas. - China reported 1,886 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection an...

How coronavirus patients live inside a sports center-turned-hospital in Wuhan

Two hospitals - one of them Wuchang - were hastily constructed in Wuhan to help treat patients who contracted the virus at the epicentre of the outbreak. Mean...

Six-year-old girl committed to mental health facility by cops

A 6-year-old Florida girl was committed for two days to a mental health facility without her mother's consent after allegedly throwing a temper tantrum at sch...

Eight out of nine United Kingdom coronavirus patients discharged from hospital

Staff members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services "will follow their standing protocols to sc...

Int'l experts begin meetings in China over coronavirus outbreak

Fourteen American evacuees who were aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship and tested positive for the coronavirus landed in California Sunday and in Texas...

Hundreds of Americans flown home from cruise ship, 14 with coronavirus

South Korea will send a presidential aircraft on Tuesday to fly back four nationals and one Japanese spouse, an official told reporters. But the final number co...

Two Malaysians on Japan cruise ship positive to Covid-19

Mr Abel said the conditions on the quarantined cruise ship were making it hard for his father to manage his diabetes and that he is also suffering from a toot...

Wuhan Hospital Director Dies Due to Coronavirus Infection

The death toll from the virus rose by 98 people in mainland China on Tuesday, bringing the total death count to 1,873. Almost 74,000 cases have been confirmed...

China reports 1,886 new virus cases, death toll up by 98

More than two dozen trade fairs and industry conferences have been postponed because of travel curbs and concerns about the spread of the virus, potentially dis...

Death toll from coronavirus in China reaches 1,868, over 72,400 Iniected

Mike Ryan, head of WHO's emergency program, asked whether the outbreak was a pandemic, said: "The real issue is whether we are seeing efficient community transm...

World Health Organization warns against virus overreaction as death toll hits 1868

Hubei authorities confirmed an additional 1,807 cases of the virus in Hubei on Monday, which brings the total number of cases in the epicenter of the outbreak t...

China virus cases pass 70,000 as World Health Organization mission begins

The fatality rate was 2.3% - 2.8% for males versus 1.7% for females. The number of people infected with the new coronavirus in China passed 70,000 on Mond...

Americans test positive for coronavirus after evacuation from quarantined cruise ship

One person has died from the virus so far. On Saturday, Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne said in a written statement that, "in light of th...

Coronavirus: Nearly half of China's population 'living under travel restrictions'

The new study reported on 44,672 cases confirmed in China as of February 11. For the next age groups, the fatality rates increase gradually: For people in the...

Covid-19 death toll in China rises by 105

Taiwan , the Philippines, Hong Kong and Japan have each reported one fatality, while France on Saturday announced the first death outside Asia, an elderly Chi...

Virus Outbreak: Questions raised on timing of Xi Jinping's outbreak involvement

But Chang's death was not the first in his family-the Chinese media reported that Chang's father and mother were infected and died one after the other. The Inte...

Coronavirus: China official says efforts working as infections dip

Organisers said they are cancelling the amateur portion of the Tokyo marathon, affecting around 38,000 runners, on fears about the spread of the new coronaviru...

China says new coronavirus cases slow

Outside of China there have been more than 500 cases in almost 30 countries. Thousands of passengers on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship, docked at th...

Chinese president's early involvement in virus outbreak raises questions

In Hubei province, 1,933 new cases and 100 new deaths were reported - the lowest daily death count since February 11. As of Monday, more than 3,100 medical pe...

World Health Organization urges gov'ts, companies, news orgs to spread Covid-19 facts

The future is unknown as far as the COVID-19 epidemic is concerned, the World Health Organisation, WHO has warned. The U.N. health agency's director-general...

China says coronavirus curbs starting to work

Though 10,844 people had been discharged from hospitals after recovery, the commission said in its daily report said that 7,264 people were still suspected to...

China sees uptick in new coronavirus cases after three days of declines

China reported 105 new deaths due to the new coronavirus on Monday, pushing the overall death toll to 1,770, as officials announced stringent measures such...

China sees rise in new virus cases, death toll rises by 105

Indeed, the total number of cases of so-called COVID-19 in the Asian country has passed the 70,000 mark, according to the latest update from the country's Natio...

U.S. Appeals Court Upholds Ruling Blocking States' Medicaid Work Requirements

Healthcare advocates on Friday applauded a federal appeals court decision striking down the Trump administration's Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas ...

Wisconsin records 2nd child death of flu season

Only four of those strains are covered by the flu vaccine. "We've also seen another peak in the last week or two, most of the cases so far have been Influenza...

China virus death toll exceeds 1600, says govt

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Ryan also said that the global community needed to change the narrative to tackle the newly identified coronavirus m...

Coronavirus: Death toll in China surges past 1,500

The biggest cluster outside China is on a quarantined cruise ship off Japan, with 285 infections now as dozens more cases were confirmed. Meanwhile, the Unite...

Coronavirus still an emergency for China, says World Health Organization chief

The news comes as the death toll from coronavirus - also known as Covid-19 - in mainland China passed 1,500 after health authorities reported another 143 deat...

France reports first Coronavirus death in Europe

This is the fourth death to be reported outside mainland China . There were contradictory reports about the timing of the tourist's illness. Out of 12 case...