Automakers are now selling cars online in China as worried consumers stay away from showrooms to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Chinese carmaker Geely is the latest to launch a new online service to try to boost sales in the country, according a BBC report. China’s largest privately-owned car maker will also offer test
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As part of measures to stop the spread of the disease in Plateau State, the state government said on Saturday that it had quarantined three Chinese citizens. It said that the Chinese were quarantined in Wase town for a suspected case of the virus. The state Commissioner for Information, Dan Manjang, disclosed this to Channels
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Iran has reported another 11 new coronavirus deaths. Fox Channel reported that at least 210 people have died in Iran from the new coronavirus, BBC Persian reported Friday citing unnamed sources in the Islamic republic’s health system, promoting an angry denial from a health ministry spokesman. Most of the people died in the capital Tehran
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China on Sunday reported 573 new infections, the highest figure in a week after a dip. All but three of them were in Hubei province, of which Wuhan is the capital. The virus has spread to more than 60 countries around the globe, prompting the World Health Organization to raise its risk assessment to its
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Mexico confirmed its fourth case of the new coronavirus on Saturday — all linked to recent travel to Italy — after a young woman tested positive for infection. Health authorities said the 20-year-old from northern Coahuila state was carrying the virus without showing symptoms. She had recently travelled to Milan and was now under isolation
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The United States President, Donald Trump said Saturday that despite the first death on US soil from the new coronavirus, the threat to Americans remained low and there was no reason for “panic.” Trump confirmed that the first fatality, announced by officials in Washington state, was a woman in her late 50s. She lived in
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The Lagos State Government on Saturday said it had moved the coronavirus patient to a better facility where he would be comfortable. It was earlier reported that the patient was very upset about where he was isolated and had threatened to flee. The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, who made the latest disclosure,
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The United States of America health officials on Friday reported a fourth case of novel coronavirus of unknown origin, indicating the disease was spreading in the country. This is coming barely a week after the US President, Donald Trump said America was doing a great job and there was no case of the novel virus
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Following the detection of the first case of the novel Coronavirus disease and the placing in quarantine of the patient, identified as a 44-year-old Italian, at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Yaba, Lagos, a health worker at the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, said on Friday that the patient was angry and attempted to escape, given the
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Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has advised President Muhammadu Buhari, to stop all flights from countries facing coronavirus outbreak. Atiku, who was the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the last election said Nigeria should fight the disease the same way it was able to tackle the outbreak of Ebola in 2014. He said
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Three players from third-division Italian football club US Pianese have tested positive for coronavirus, the Tuscany side confirmed on Friday. “At the moment those infected are four, three players and a team official,” the Siena-based club said in a statement. “The first is a young player who had started to experience a slight rise in
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Following the incident of Coronavirus recorded in Ogun State, the state government says 28 people who had contact with the Italian victim of the disease have been identified and quarantined. The government also said the firm where the victim visited in Ewekoro has been shut down. The state Governor, Dapo Abiodun, disclosed this, on Friday,
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At least 210 people have died in Iran from the new coronavirus, BBC Persian reported Friday citing unnamed sources in the Islamic republic’s health system, promoting an angry denial from a health ministry spokesman. Most of the people died in the capital Tehran and the holy city of Qom in central Iran, where the country’s
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The Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States has warned that facial hair can interfere with face masks and respirators, which are being used around the world in an effort to combat the global spread of coronavirus, a.k.a 2019-nCoV. The CDC has come up with an infographic, which displays assorted styles of beards,
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The Ministry of Health in Lagos State has confirmed its first case of the novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), incidentally the first in Nigeria and in West Africa since the outbreak in China in January 2020. This was contained in a statement released Friday morning by the state Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi. It is
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