Tag: Health

Chinese ambassador to Israel invokes Holocaust to rail against coronavirus travel bans

Zach Halaschak · February 3, 2020 6:37 pm

Medical workers in protective suits move a coronavirus patient into an isolation ward at the Second People's Hospital in Fuyang in central China's Anhui Province, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020. The death toll in China's virus outbreak rose to 259 on Saturday and Beijing criticized Washington's tightening of travel controls to bar most foreign nationals who visited the country within the past two weeks.

Fear of pandemic as deaths from coronavirus surpass SARS in China

Zach Halaschak · February 3, 2020 5:42 pm

US to rush more citizens back from China to escape coronavirus

Kimberly Leonard · February 3, 2020 5:13 pm

National security adviser on coronavirus: ‘No reason for Americans to panic’

Madison Dibble · February 2, 2020 5:58 pm

People queue up to buy face masks at a cosmetics shop in Hong Kong, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020.

‘Huge spike in sales’: DC running out of face masks as Trump declares coronavirus emergency

Spencer Neale · January 31, 2020 10:23 pm

People wear masks at a metro station in Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. According to the Taiwan Centers of Disease Control (CDC) Tuesday, the eighth case diagnosed with the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has been confirmed in Taiwan.

Trump declares coronavirus outbreak a public emergency, will ban foreign travel from China and quarantine US citizens

Cassidy Morrison · January 31, 2020 8:51 pm

A woman wearing a protective mask prays during a Mass at Manila's Chinatown, Philippines on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020.

‘Our names will live in infamy’: Mayor of Wuhan offers to resign over virus response

Zach Halaschak · January 31, 2020 4:54 pm

Medical workers wearing personal protective equipment wheel bodies to a refrigerated trailer serving as a makeshift morgue at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Monday, April 6, 2020, in New York. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.

‘Draconian measures’: China allegedly cremating coronavirus victims in secret

Spencer Neale · January 30, 2020 11:35 pm

Tom Cotton urges all Americans in China to ‘get out—now’ amid coronavirus outbreak

Tim Pearce · January 30, 2020 9:21 pm

Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., is interviewed by reporters following final votes for the week.

Tom Cotton says coronavirus may have originated in Wuhan ‘super laboratory’

Spencer Neale · January 30, 2020 8:54 pm

Medical workers wearing personal protective equipment wheel bodies to a refrigerated trailer serving as a makeshift morgue at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Monday, April 6, 2020, in New York. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.

‘A long time to test’: Scientists in Hong Kong say they have developed coronavirus vaccine

Zach Halaschak · January 30, 2020 5:52 pm

The Costa Smeralda cruise ship is docked in the Civitavecchia port near Rome, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. Italian health authorities are keeping some 7,000 people aboard after a passenger from Macao came down with flu-like symptoms, amid the global scare about a new virus. Passengers are being kept on board pending check to determine the type of virus.

UPDATED: Thousands quarantined on cruise ship over possible coronavirus case

Zach Halaschak · January 30, 2020 4:08 pm