Tehran 28 February _California is monitoring more than 8,400 people for coronavirus symptoms after arrival on commercial flights, but the state lacks test kits and is being held back by federal testing rules, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday.
Tehran 28 February _Iran’s health minister has vowed that the country would surprise the world with its way of dealing with a coronavirus that has claimed more than two dozen lives since it break out in the country last week.
Tehran 26 February _Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araqchi says the remarks by Mark Dubowitz, Chief Executive of Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), about the spread of coronavirus in Iran are “shameful and downright inhuman.”
Tehran 26 February _US President Donald Trump is livid that stocks are sliding, contending that health officials’ warnings about the spread of coronavirus have frightened investors, The Washington Post reports.
Tehran 25 February _Speaking from the quarantine, Iran’s vice health minister announces that he has tested positive for the new coronavirus, but expresses certitude that the country will overpower the epidemic over the upcoming weeks.
MTehran 25 February _The White House plans to spend a total of $2.5 billion fighting the deadly new coronavirus as infections mushroom around the globe, US media report.
MTehran 25 February _edical officials have assured that Iran will, in the near future, rein in the spread of a flu-like virus originating from China, and that conditions of most of the patients diagnosed with the new coronavirus have improved.
Tehran 24 February _Iran's Health Ministry spokesman says the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in the country has reached 12, while the number of those affected stands at 59 to 61.
Tehran 23 February _US President Donald Trump grew furious over not being told that coronavirus-infected Americans were being flown back to the country from Japan, according to administration officials.
Tehran 21 February _Qatar has censured Saudi Arabia over barring its health minister from a recent emergency meeting of Persian Gulf countries in the Saudi capital Riyadh to discuss the growing concerns over the coronavirus, and means to unify regional efforts to combat it.
Tehran 20 February _One scientific post suggests links between the new coronavirus and AIDS, a second says it may have passed to people via snakes, while a third claims it is a pathogen from outer space.
Tehran 20 February _Health authorities in the central Iranian city of Qom have confirmed two deaths as a result of a first incidence of coronavirus in the country.
Tehran 19 February _The death toll from the coronavirus epidemic in mainland China has surpassed the 2,000 mark, despite a decline in new infection cases for the second straight day amid stricter containment measures by local authorities in the hardest-hit city of Wuhan.
Tehran 17 February _Nearly half of the U.S. companies in China say their global operations are already seeing an impact from business shutdowns due to the coronavirus epidemic, according to a poll by Shanghai’s American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham).
Tehran 16 February _The coronavirus epidemic could damage global economic growth this year, the IMF head said Sunday, but a sharp and rapid economic rebound could follow.
Tehran 11 February _The situation in Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus, is still very grave, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned during a rare visit to frontline medical staff and patients affected by the deadly coronavirus that has killed more than 1,000 people.
Tehran 8 February _The number of deaths from China's new coronavirus epidemic jumped to 722 on Saturday, surpassing the toll from the SARS outbreak on the mainland and Hong Kong almost two decades ago.
Tehran 6 February _The new coronavirus that appeared late December has claimed 563 lives, infected more than 28,000 people in mainland China and spread to more than 20 countries.