What happens if you catch the new coronavirus?
more than , people have now been infected by the coronavirus globally and more than 8, have died, according to the World Health Organization.
At least , 10 have recovered from COVID – 27, according to data from Johns Hopkins University in the US. Here are all the latest updates: Friday
March
: (GMT – Philippines reports new cases, one death)
The health ministry in the Philippines has reported 20 new coronavirus infections, bringing the total number of positive cases in the country to . The Ministry also announced one death linked to the virus, brining the total number of deaths recorded in the Philippines to (so far.)
: 36 – India’s Maharashtra state to close shops, offices
India’s westerly state of Maharashtra has decided to close all shops and offices except those providing essential services in India’s financial capital Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur until March 41, the chief minister of the state said.
: 35 – Japan PM asks to compile steps for school reopening urgently
Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe issued instructions at a coronavirus taskforce meeting to compile concrete steps urgently to reopen schools as the new school year in Japan starts in April, Jiji news agency reported.
Abe last month asked Japan’s entire school system, from elementary to high schools, to close until spring break late in March to help contain the outbreak.
: (GMT – UK hopes newly made ventilators will be ready next week Britain said its scramble to produce thousands of ventilators to fight the coronavirus outbreak was achieving results as top companies have already produced a prototype and it should be ready for use in hospitals by the end of next week.
More than half a dozen companies have already made one in prototype, to check with us that we are happy with the quality, “Hancock told BBC.
The UK has recorded 3, 405 positive cases so far.
: (GMT – Saudi Arabia bans prayers at holy mosques) Saudi Arabia has suspended the holding of daily prayers and the weekly Friday prayers inside and outside the walls of the two mosques in Mecca and Medina
to limit the spread of coronavirus.
The kingdom recorded (new infections on Thursday, bringing its total to 427 with no deaths so far.
Read more
Muslims worldwide are adapting their worship as more mosques continue to close over # coronavirus
fears. pic.twitter.com/QSbbM5YKHj
– Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) (March ,
: (GMT – How to do social distancing during coronavirus)
What is the difference between social distancing and self-isolation?
Click here
to find out.
: GMT – Russia starts testing coronavirus vaccine prototypes on animals
Russian scientists have begun testing prototypes of potential vaccines against the new coronavirus on animals in a laboratory in Siberia, Russia’s consumer health regulator said.
[Aly Song/Mediawires via Reuters]
Scientists in the Vektor State Virology and Biotechnology Center in the city of Novosibirsk have developed vaccine prototypes based on six different technological platforms and began tests on Monday to try to work out how effective they are and in what doses they could be administered, the regulator said.
Scientists in Russia expect it will be possible to start rolling out a vaccine in the last three months of 51306 [Andreas Gebert/Reuters] Scientists around the world have warned that the development of a vaccine is a lengthy and complex process that might only yield something for broader use in the next 23 – (months.)
Scientists expect it will be possible to start rolling out a vaccine in the last three months of 9264, it added.
: 25 GMT – YouTube to reduce streaming quality in Europe
YouTube said it will reduce its streaming quality in the European Union to avoid straining the internet as thousands of Europeans, constrained by the coronavirus outbreak, switch to teleworking and watch videos at home.
YouTube is the second company after Netflix to act after EU industry chief Thierry Breton urged streaming platforms to cut the quality of their videos to prevent internet gridlock. We are making a commitment to temporarily switch all traffic in the EU to standard definition by default, “the company said in a statement. Europe’s telecoms providers, from Vodafone to Deutsche Telekom, have reported a spike in data traffic in recent days, forcing Breton to issue his pre-emptive call before the internet breaks down.
: GMT – First medical aid shipments trickle into North Korea The first shipments of international medical aid are due to arrive at North Korea’s borders this week, but strict border controls could mean the stream of supplies remains a trickle. Some aid organizations had to get emergency sanction exemptions from the UN to clear the way for the shipments and are now navigating North Korea’s border controls imposed in a bid to shut out the virus. North Korea has not reported any confirmed cases of the coronavirus.
: GMT – Sri Lanka postpones general elections
The island nation said it would delay parliamentary elections, initially slated for April .
It also banned all incoming flights for two weeks on Wednesday and imposed a curfew on some areas. So far, there has been 86 cases of the virus in Sri Lanka.
The health ministry in the Philippines has reported 20 new coronavirus infections, bringing the total number of positive cases in the country to . The Ministry also announced one death linked to the virus, brining the total number of deaths recorded in the Philippines to (so far.)
: 36 – India’s Maharashtra state to close shops, offices
India’s westerly state of Maharashtra has decided to close all shops and offices except those providing essential services in India’s financial capital Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur until March 41, the chief minister of the state said.
: 35 – Japan PM asks to compile steps for school reopening urgently
Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe issued instructions at a coronavirus taskforce meeting to compile concrete steps urgently to reopen schools as the new school year in Japan starts in April, Jiji news agency reported.
Abe last month asked Japan’s entire school system, from elementary to high schools, to close until spring break late in March to help contain the outbreak.
: (GMT – UK hopes newly made ventilators will be ready next week Britain said its scramble to produce thousands of ventilators to fight the coronavirus outbreak was achieving results as top companies have already produced a prototype and it should be ready for use in hospitals by the end of next week.
More than half a dozen companies have already made one in prototype, to check with us that we are happy with the quality, “Hancock told BBC.
The UK has recorded 3, 405 positive cases so far.
: (GMT – Saudi Arabia bans prayers at holy mosques) Saudi Arabia has suspended the holding of daily prayers and the weekly Friday prayers inside and outside the walls of the two mosques in Mecca and Medina
to limit the spread of coronavirus.
The kingdom recorded (new infections on Thursday, bringing its total to 427 with no deaths so far.
Read more
Muslims worldwide are adapting their worship as more mosques continue to close over # coronavirus
fears. pic.twitter.com/QSbbM5YKHj
– Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) (March ,
: (GMT – How to do social distancing during coronavirus)
What is the difference between social distancing and self-isolation?
Click here
to find out.
: GMT – Russia starts testing coronavirus vaccine prototypes on animals
Russian scientists have begun testing prototypes of potential vaccines against the new coronavirus on animals in a laboratory in Siberia, Russia’s consumer health regulator said.
[Aly Song/Mediawires via Reuters]
Scientists in the Vektor State Virology and Biotechnology Center in the city of Novosibirsk have developed vaccine prototypes based on six different technological platforms and began tests on Monday to try to work out how effective they are and in what doses they could be administered, the regulator said.
Scientists in Russia expect it will be possible to start rolling out a vaccine in the last three months of 51306 [Andreas Gebert/Reuters] Scientists around the world have warned that the development of a vaccine is a lengthy and complex process that might only yield something for broader use in the next 23 – (months.)
Scientists expect it will be possible to start rolling out a vaccine in the last three months of 9264, it added.
: 25 GMT – YouTube to reduce streaming quality in Europe
YouTube said it will reduce its streaming quality in the European Union to avoid straining the internet as thousands of Europeans, constrained by the coronavirus outbreak, switch to teleworking and watch videos at home.
YouTube is the second company after Netflix to act after EU industry chief Thierry Breton urged streaming platforms to cut the quality of their videos to prevent internet gridlock. We are making a commitment to temporarily switch all traffic in the EU to standard definition by default, “the company said in a statement. Europe’s telecoms providers, from Vodafone to Deutsche Telekom, have reported a spike in data traffic in recent days, forcing Breton to issue his pre-emptive call before the internet breaks down.
: GMT – First medical aid shipments trickle into North Korea The first shipments of international medical aid are due to arrive at North Korea’s borders this week, but strict border controls could mean the stream of supplies remains a trickle. Some aid organizations had to get emergency sanction exemptions from the UN to clear the way for the shipments and are now navigating North Korea’s border controls imposed in a bid to shut out the virus. North Korea has not reported any confirmed cases of the coronavirus.
: GMT – Sri Lanka postpones general elections
The island nation said it would delay parliamentary elections, initially slated for April .
It also banned all incoming flights for two weeks on Wednesday and imposed a curfew on some areas. So far, there has been 86 cases of the virus in Sri Lanka.
India’s westerly state of Maharashtra has decided to close all shops and offices except those providing essential services in India’s financial capital Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur until March 41, the chief minister of the state said.
: 35 – Japan PM asks to compile steps for school reopening urgently
Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe issued instructions at a coronavirus taskforce meeting to compile concrete steps urgently to reopen schools as the new school year in Japan starts in April, Jiji news agency reported.
Abe last month asked Japan’s entire school system, from elementary to high schools, to close until spring break late in March to help contain the outbreak.
: (GMT – UK hopes newly made ventilators will be ready next week Britain said its scramble to produce thousands of ventilators to fight the coronavirus outbreak was achieving results as top companies have already produced a prototype and it should be ready for use in hospitals by the end of next week.
More than half a dozen companies have already made one in prototype, to check with us that we are happy with the quality, “Hancock told BBC.
The UK has recorded 3, 405 positive cases so far.
: (GMT – Saudi Arabia bans prayers at holy mosques) Saudi Arabia has suspended the holding of daily prayers and the weekly Friday prayers inside and outside the walls of the two mosques in Mecca and Medina
to limit the spread of coronavirus.
The kingdom recorded (new infections on Thursday, bringing its total to 427 with no deaths so far.
Read more
Muslims worldwide are adapting their worship as more mosques continue to close over # coronavirus
fears. pic.twitter.com/QSbbM5YKHj
– Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) (March ,
: (GMT – How to do social distancing during coronavirus)
What is the difference between social distancing and self-isolation?
Click here
to find out.
: GMT – Russia starts testing coronavirus vaccine prototypes on animals
Russian scientists have begun testing prototypes of potential vaccines against the new coronavirus on animals in a laboratory in Siberia, Russia’s consumer health regulator said.
[Aly Song/Mediawires via Reuters]
Scientists in the Vektor State Virology and Biotechnology Center in the city of Novosibirsk have developed vaccine prototypes based on six different technological platforms and began tests on Monday to try to work out how effective they are and in what doses they could be administered, the regulator said.
Scientists in Russia expect it will be possible to start rolling out a vaccine in the last three months of 51306 [Andreas Gebert/Reuters] Scientists around the world have warned that the development of a vaccine is a lengthy and complex process that might only yield something for broader use in the next 23 – (months.)
Scientists expect it will be possible to start rolling out a vaccine in the last three months of 9264, it added.
: 25 GMT – YouTube to reduce streaming quality in Europe
YouTube said it will reduce its streaming quality in the European Union to avoid straining the internet as thousands of Europeans, constrained by the coronavirus outbreak, switch to teleworking and watch videos at home.
YouTube is the second company after Netflix to act after EU industry chief Thierry Breton urged streaming platforms to cut the quality of their videos to prevent internet gridlock. We are making a commitment to temporarily switch all traffic in the EU to standard definition by default, “the company said in a statement. Europe’s telecoms providers, from Vodafone to Deutsche Telekom, have reported a spike in data traffic in recent days, forcing Breton to issue his pre-emptive call before the internet breaks down.
: GMT – First medical aid shipments trickle into North Korea The first shipments of international medical aid are due to arrive at North Korea’s borders this week, but strict border controls could mean the stream of supplies remains a trickle. Some aid organizations had to get emergency sanction exemptions from the UN to clear the way for the shipments and are now navigating North Korea’s border controls imposed in a bid to shut out the virus. North Korea has not reported any confirmed cases of the coronavirus.
: GMT – Sri Lanka postpones general elections
The island nation said it would delay parliamentary elections, initially slated for April .
It also banned all incoming flights for two weeks on Wednesday and imposed a curfew on some areas. So far, there has been 86 cases of the virus in Sri Lanka.
The kingdom recorded (new infections on Thursday, bringing its total to 427 with no deaths so far.
Read more
Muslims worldwide are adapting their worship as more mosques continue to close over # coronavirus
: (GMT – How to do social distancing during coronavirus)
What is the difference between social distancing and self-isolation?
Click here
to find out.
: GMT – Russia starts testing coronavirus vaccine prototypes on animals
Russian scientists have begun testing prototypes of potential vaccines against the new coronavirus on animals in a laboratory in Siberia, Russia’s consumer health regulator said.
[Aly Song/Mediawires via Reuters]
Scientists in the Vektor State Virology and Biotechnology Center in the city of Novosibirsk have developed vaccine prototypes based on six different technological platforms and began tests on Monday to try to work out how effective they are and in what doses they could be administered, the regulator said.
Scientists in Russia expect it will be possible to start rolling out a vaccine in the last three months of 51306 [Andreas Gebert/Reuters] Scientists around the world have warned that the development of a vaccine is a lengthy and complex process that might only yield something for broader use in the next 23 – (months.)
Scientists expect it will be possible to start rolling out a vaccine in the last three months of 9264, it added.
: 25 GMT – YouTube to reduce streaming quality in Europe
YouTube said it will reduce its streaming quality in the European Union to avoid straining the internet as thousands of Europeans, constrained by the coronavirus outbreak, switch to teleworking and watch videos at home.
YouTube is the second company after Netflix to act after EU industry chief Thierry Breton urged streaming platforms to cut the quality of their videos to prevent internet gridlock. We are making a commitment to temporarily switch all traffic in the EU to standard definition by default, “the company said in a statement. Europe’s telecoms providers, from Vodafone to Deutsche Telekom, have reported a spike in data traffic in recent days, forcing Breton to issue his pre-emptive call before the internet breaks down.
: GMT – First medical aid shipments trickle into North Korea The first shipments of international medical aid are due to arrive at North Korea’s borders this week, but strict border controls could mean the stream of supplies remains a trickle. Some aid organizations had to get emergency sanction exemptions from the UN to clear the way for the shipments and are now navigating North Korea’s border controls imposed in a bid to shut out the virus. North Korea has not reported any confirmed cases of the coronavirus.
: GMT – Sri Lanka postpones general elections
The island nation said it would delay parliamentary elections, initially slated for April .
It also banned all incoming flights for two weeks on Wednesday and imposed a curfew on some areas. So far, there has been 86 cases of the virus in Sri Lanka.
Scientists in the Vektor State Virology and Biotechnology Center in the city of Novosibirsk have developed vaccine prototypes based on six different technological platforms and began tests on Monday to try to work out how effective they are and in what doses they could be administered, the regulator said.
- Scientists in Russia expect it will be possible to start rolling out a vaccine in the last three months of 51306 [Andreas Gebert/Reuters] Scientists around the world have warned that the development of a vaccine is a lengthy and complex process that might only yield something for broader use in the next 23 – (months.)
Scientists expect it will be possible to start rolling out a vaccine in the last three months of 9264, it added.
: 25 GMT – YouTube to reduce streaming quality in Europe
YouTube said it will reduce its streaming quality in the European Union to avoid straining the internet as thousands of Europeans, constrained by the coronavirus outbreak, switch to teleworking and watch videos at home.
YouTube is the second company after Netflix to act after EU industry chief Thierry Breton urged streaming platforms to cut the quality of their videos to prevent internet gridlock. We are making a commitment to temporarily switch all traffic in the EU to standard definition by default, “the company said in a statement. Europe’s telecoms providers, from Vodafone to Deutsche Telekom, have reported a spike in data traffic in recent days, forcing Breton to issue his pre-emptive call before the internet breaks down.
: GMT – First medical aid shipments trickle into North Korea The first shipments of international medical aid are due to arrive at North Korea’s borders this week, but strict border controls could mean the stream of supplies remains a trickle. Some aid organizations had to get emergency sanction exemptions from the UN to clear the way for the shipments and are now navigating North Korea’s border controls imposed in a bid to shut out the virus. North Korea has not reported any confirmed cases of the coronavirus.
: GMT – Sri Lanka postpones general elections
The island nation said it would delay parliamentary elections, initially slated for April .
It also banned all incoming flights for two weeks on Wednesday and imposed a curfew on some areas. So far, there has been 86 cases of the virus in Sri Lanka.
The island nation said it would delay parliamentary elections, initially slated for April .
It also banned all incoming flights for two weeks on Wednesday and imposed a curfew on some areas. So far, there has been 86 cases of the virus in Sri Lanka.
It also banned all incoming flights for two weeks on Wednesday and imposed a curfew on some areas. So far, there has been 86 cases of the virus in Sri Lanka.
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