Article content continued “This is one example of how COVID-19 could sneak into our community,” Moore said. Among the people infected is an employee of the Amherstview Golf Club, who came into contact with someone who is believed to have contracted the virus at the salon, according to a message posted by the golf club.… Read More »
Get an informed guide to the global outbreak with our daily Coronavirus newsletter. In 2005, the federal government sought to assess how a respiratory-related pandemic might play out in the United States. Its report estimated that a severe influenza pandemic would require mechanical ventilators for 740,000 critically ill people. Today, as the country faces the… Read More »
[The stream is slated to start at 10 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] World Health Organization officials are holding a press conference Friday to update the public on the coronavirus outbreak, which has infected more than 76,700 and killed at least 2,251 so… Read More »
By Adam Vaughan The effects of coronavirus are impacting the Shanghai Stock ExchangeYifan Ding/Getty The economic shock waves of the Wuhan coronavirus look likely to eclipse the 2003 SARS crisis, as shares in China fell dramatically and analysts downgraded their forecasts for the country’s growth. The Shanghai Composite Index fell by 8 per cent today,… Read More »
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will step up efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays as a rise in confirmed cases fanned fears the virus could spread to other countries. Tourist line-up in a health control at the arrival section at Suvarnabhumi international airport in Bangkok, Thailand, Januaruy… Read More »