More than 20,400 confirmed cases of coronavirus reported so far, says China’s National Health Commission The death toll in China from the novel coronavirus outbreak climbed to 425, the country’s National Health Commission (NHC) said Tuesday. In a statement, the commission said it has so far received a total of 20,438 confirmed cases, adding a

A man has his body temperature measured at a booth set up at an entrance to a shopping mall as the country is hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus, in Beijing, China February 3, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins The United States has taken actions that create and spread fear following a coronavirus outbreak

River Road. A street that is ever bustling with lots of activity and booming businesses. Along this busy passage in Nairobi’s downtown area, the street is dotted with tens of cosmetics shops. Due to increased competition for customers, some stalls have their salespeople stand along corridors to waylay passers by to purchase cosmetics from their

Hands of a nurse administering an injection. Medically-assisted suicide is not legal in Kenya. TRAGIC STORY Diana Elga Akinyi drafted the epitaph just days before she chose to die to free herself from excruciating pain and the numbing effects of medicines. Long before she chose to die, Diana had had to bring herself to terms

A traveller wears a mask at the Dubai International Airport, after the UAE’s Ministry of Health and Community Prevention confirmed the country’s first case of coronavirus, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates January 29, 2020. REUTERS/Christopher Pike A family from China’s central city of Wuhan staying in the United Arab Emirates has been diagnosed with the

A medical official takes the body temperature of a man at the departure hall of the airport in Changsha, Hunan Province, as the country is hit by an outbreak of a new coronavirus, China, January 27, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Peter The death toll from a coronavirus outbreak in China rose to 81 on Monday, as the

Canada on Saturday declared the first “presumptive” confirmed case of the deadly coronavirus in a resident who had returned from the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak of the viral disease. Ontario health officials told a news conference the patient is a male in his 50s, who arrived in Toronto on

Photo Credit Birmingham Mail Orthopaedic surgeon Habib Rahman More than 200 patients who were treated by consultant orthopaedic surgeon Habib Rahman at the Spire Parkway hospital in Solihull have been contacted about the concerns Hundreds of patients have been recalled after concerns were raised that a Solihull medic had been performing unnecessary operations at a

A traveler wears a facemask as she stands near the Beijing Railway Station in Beijing, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. A second person has died from a new form of coronavirus in central China, health authorities said late Thursday. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) By Alex Woodward CDC deploys 100 workers to check passengers coming from Wuhan into

This Dec. 12, 2019, photo shows a sign at the Mundipharma International headquarters at Cambridge Science Park in England. Mundipharma is the international affiliate of Purdue Pharma, the maker of the blockbuster painkiller OxyContin. Mundipharma is now marketing Nyxoid, a new brand of naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal medication. (AP Photo/Leila Coker) The gleaming white