EU health ministers to hold extraordinary virus talks next week
European Union health ministers will hold an extraordinary meeting on March 6 to discuss the coronavirus outbreak, an EU official said.
Italian region warns of hospital chaos if coronavirus spreads
Italy’s hospitals will be thrown into chaos if the severe outbreak of coronavirus spreads, the country’s worst-hit region Lombardy said on Friday, warning that 10% of those who caught the disease needed intensive care treatment.
French fashion label Agnes B cancels Paris show due to coronavirus
French Agnes B joined on Friday the list of fashion houses that have canceled shows at Paris Fashion Week due to coronavirus outbreak that has reached multiple countries around the world.
Russia to deport 88 foreigners for violating coronavirus quarantine
Moscow will deport 88 foreign nationals for allegedly violating quarantine measures imposed on them as a precaution against the coronavirus, the RIA news agency cited Moscow’s deputy mayor as saying on Friday.
Turkey says it demanded immediate ceasefire in Syria’s Idlib from Russia
Turkish officials told a Russian delegation in Ankara on Friday that a sustainable ceasefire in Syria’s Idlib region must be established immediately, Turkey’s foreign ministry said, after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed by Syrian government attacks.
Russia’s Putin, Turkey’s Erdogan could meet next week: RIA cites Kremlin
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan could meet on March 5 or March 6 amid tensions around the Syrian province of Idlib, the RIA news agency quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Friday.
White House adviser: More U.S. coronavirus cases likely but won’t necessarily ‘skyrocket’
The number of additional coronavirus cases in the United States is likely to increase but that does not mean they will “skyrocket” in North America, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Friday.
WHO: global community not ready to take same measures as China to contain coronavirus
The World Health Organization (WHO) said in a report issued on Friday that much of the global community is not yet ready to implement the types of measures that have contained the fast-moving coronavirus outbreak in China.
Coronavirus unlikely to vanish next year-NIH’s Fauci according to source
A senior U.S. health official told lawmakers that the coronavirus that is spreading globally is unlikely to disappear next year and that many more cases should be expected in the United States, according to a source who attended a briefing on Friday.
Coronavirus outbreak ‘getting bigger’, says WHO, warning of spread worldwide
The rapid rise in coronavirus raised fears of a pandemic on Friday, with five countries reporting their first cases, the World Health Organization warning it could spread worldwide and Switzerland cancelling the giant Geneva car show.
