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  • China reports 361 dead from coronavirus, total of 17,238 cases

    Date: 2020-02-03 08:48:47 GMT - China - World - SN:13 - ID:8295751

    BEIJING, Feb 3 (MENA) - China's National Health Commission on Monday reported that 361 have died on the mainland from the new virus, with an additional 2,829 new cases over the last 24 hours bringing the Chinese total to 17,238. The latest ....

  • Canadian evacuees from Wuhan to be quarantined for two weeks at Trenton

    Date: 2020-02-03 06:25:56 GMT - Canada - World - SN:6 - ID:8295606

    OTTAWA, Feb 3 (MENA) - Canadian evacuees from the Chinese province afflicted with the novel coronavirus will be quarantined for two weeks upon their arrival at an Ontario military base, the government announced. But Ottawa did not provide a ....

  • Russia to suspend all rail passenger services with China over coronavirus outbreak

    Date: 2020-02-03 06:25:00 GMT - Russia - World - SN:5 - ID:8295611

    MOSCOW, Feb 3 (MENA) - All passenger trains between China and Russia, including a direct Moscow-Beijing link, will stop running from Monday due to the coronavirus outbreak, Russian Railways has announced as quoted by Sputnik news agency. It’s ....

  • China to inject 1.2 trillion yuan into markets amid new coronavirus outbreak

    Date: 2020-02-02 22:26:38 GMT - China - World - SN:64 - ID:8295527

    BEIJING, Feb 2 (MENA) - China’s central bank will pump 1.2 trillion yuan (US$174 billion) into financial markets on Monday, as part of an effort by regulators to mitigate volatility when trading opens against the backdrop of a new coronavirus ....

  • WHO: Only four countries can detect coronavirus in Middle East

    Date: 2020-02-02 16:06:24 GMT - Russia - World - SN:46 - ID:8295172

    MOSCOW, Feb 2 (MENA) - Abd al Nasser Abu Bakr, head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Office of Communicable Disease Control in the Eastern Mediterranean, said that only four countries in the Middle East were able to detect cases of new ....

  • Drunk driver kills 4 Lebanese children in Australia

    Date: 2020-02-02 12:46:38 GMT - Australia - World - SN:33 - ID:8294792

    CANBERRA, Feb 2 (MENA) - A drunk driver slammed his pickup truck into a group of Lebanese children in Sydney, killing two sisters, their brother and a cousin and seriously injuring three others, Lebanon's Naharnet reported Sunday. The 29-year-old ....

  • Four injured in grenade attack on security personnel in India's Srinagar city

    Date: 2020-02-02 09:07:53 GMT - India - World - SN:21 - ID:8294424

    NEW DELHI, Feb 2 (MENA) - Four people, including two security personnel, were injured in a grenade attack by terrorists this afternoon at Srinagar's Lal Chowk, police said. Two civilians and two security personnel were injured when terrorists ....

  • S. Korea coronavirus cases soar to 15

    Date: 2020-02-02 08:45:48 GMT - south korea - World - SN:20 - ID:8294391

    SEOUL, Feb 2 (MENA) - South Korea on Sunday reported three more cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the total here to 15, amid concerns over person-to-person transmissionm according to the official Yonhap news agency. The Korea Centers for ....

  • France helps Mexican citizens flee Wuhan: Mexico

    Date: 2020-02-02 08:23:33 GMT - Mexico - World - SN:17 - ID:8294375

    MEXICO CITY, Feb 2 (MENA) - France is helping evacuate 10 Mexican citizens from Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province and the city where the coronavirus outbreak started, CNN reported on Sunday. The 10 Mexican nationals are first flying to France ....

  • US troops returning from China quarantined in S. Korea

    Date: 2020-02-02 07:58:19 GMT - USA - World - SN:13 - ID:8294349

    WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (MENA) - The U.S. military command in South Korea said it has instituted a 14-day self quarantine effective Sunday for any troops who recently traveled to China, adding that an outbreak in that country of a new coronavirus could ....

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