(Asia Times) The Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) has built and is regularly updating an online dashboard for tracking the worldwide spread of the coronavirus outbreak that began in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Johns Hopkins Magazine reported. Lauren Gardner, a civil engineering professor and CSSE’s co-director, spearheaded the effort to launch the mapping website on Wednesday. The… Read more »
Viruses spanning many countries and killing people is not a new phenomena. Weather it was the Ebola outbreak in Africa in 2014 or even the flare ups of the virus in 2016- the event of world virus outbreaks is not new. Experts are now saying it has even surpassed the danger of the Sars outbreak that began in China in… Read more »
Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines has threatened to force U.S. troops out of the strategically vital nation, in a move strategically aligning the Philippines closer to China and Russia. This change in policy reflects that of Turkey as well, and a growing number of countries around the world which see the change in global polarity from a hegemonic to… Read more »
Australia’s bushfires have been described as “apocalyptic” this season. Day after day, images of flames, destruction and smoke have filled television and social media screens. Amid the chaos, fire service officials have been praised for their leadership. One in particular has become a face of the crisis – and a household name. Shane Fitzsimmons, 50, is the commissioner of the… Read more »
The Chinese city of Wuhan is set to complete a hospital in six days in order to treat patients suspected of contracting the coronavirus. There are now about 10,000 confirmed cases in China, 213 of whom have died. The outbreak began in Wuhan, home to around 11 million people. Hospitals in the city have been flooded with concerned residents and… Read more »
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan will bring forward the date that the coronavirus will become a “designated infectious disease” and warned its citizens on Friday to put off non-urgent travel to China as a third chartered flight repatriating its nationals arrived from Wuhan. Japan now has 14 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus, an epidemic that is believed to have originated… Read more »
The number of coronavirus cases worldwide has surpassed that of the Sars epidemic, which spread to more than two dozen countries in 2003. There were around 8,100 cases of Sars – severe acute respiratory syndrome – reported during that outbreak. But nearly 10,000 people have been infected with the new coronavirus, which emerged in China in December. The number of… Read more »
(Reuters) – A coronavirus outbreak that began in Wuhan, the capital of China’s central province of Hubei, has spread to more than 9,800 people globally, surpassing the total from the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic. The new virus has killed 213 people. Here is what we know: ** There are 131 confirmed cases in 23 countries and regions outside mainland China, including… Read more »
BEIJING, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) — A group of Chinese institutions is stepping up vaccine development for the novel coronavirus, which has already caused 7,711 confirmed cases of pneumonia in China as of Wednesday. China’s prestigious Tsinghua University has set up a research team with rich experience in developing vaccines and agents against coronaviruses known to infect humans, including the SARS… Read more »
(Asia Times) Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has renewed a longstanding threat to sever security cooperation with the United States, an angry response to recent travel bans imposed on Filipino officials involved in alleged rights abuses. The firebrand Filipino leader has also reportedly turned down US President Donald Trump’s invitation to attend a special US-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit… Read more »