U.S. may stage additional evacuation flights in China’s virus-hit Wuhan on February 6
The U.S. Department of State said it may be staging additional evacuation flights for private U.S. citizens in China’s virus-hit Wuhan on Thursday.
UK to send another civilian aircraft to help Britons leave Wuhan – Sky News
Britain’s Foreign Office will charter another civilian aircraft to help British nationals and their dependents leave China’s Wuhan for the UK on Sunday amidst the spread of the coronavirus outbreak, Sky News reported late on Tuesday.
Brazil sending two planes to evacuate citizens from virus-hit China
Brazil on Tuesday obtained authorization from China to fly two planes to the city of Wuhan at the center of the new coronavirus outbreak to evacuate Brazilian citizens who asked to be repatriated.
China’s Hubei province, epicenter of coronavirus outbreak, reports 65 new deaths on February 4
The number of deaths in China’s central Hubei province from a coronavirus outbreak had risen by 65 to 479 as of Tuesday, Chinese state television reported on Wednesday.
U.S. FDA expands use of CDC coronavirus diagnostic test
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday extended the use of a coronavirus detection tool to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-qualified laboratories across the country.
Factbox: What we know about the new coronavirus in China
The rapid spread of a new coronavirus in China is alarming health experts. Here is what we know – and do not know – about the virus:
Factbox: Events affected due to coronavirus epidemic
The following is a list of international sports events affected by the coronavirus, which has killed more than 400 people and infected more than 14,000 in China after it first emerged in Wuhan, Hubei province, late last year:
Nigeria working to have U.S. travel ban lifted -foreign minister
Nigeria has begun working on the security and information sharing requirements for the lifting of a U.S. travel ban on prospective immigrants from the African nation, Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said on Tuesday.
U.S. deploys ‘more survivable’ submarine-launched low-yield nuclear weapon
The U.S. Defense Department said on Tuesday the Navy had fielded a low-yield, submarine-launched ballistic missile warhead, something the Pentagon believes is needed to deter adversaries like Russia but which critics say lowers the threshold for using …
Bolivian political camps struck as election race begins
Bolivia’s 2020 presidential election will be contested by eight candidates who registered by a Monday deadline to compete in the re-run of a fraught October ballot that sparked protests and led to the downfall of long-term leftist leader Evo Morales.
