MAJURO, 02 MARCH 2020 (MARIANAS VARIETY) — While escalating efforts to prevent contact with people from coronavirus hot-spots globally, the Marshall Islands is fast-tracking quarantine facilities and safety supplies for health workers to prepare for what health authorities believe is an inevitable arrival of the illness. “The World Health Organisation is telling us it’s great […]
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COVID-19: More new virus cases outside China than in, ‘no time for complacency’, says UN health agency
GENEVA, 27 FEBRUARY 2020 (UN NEWS CENTRE)—The number of new COVID-19, or coronavirus, infections outside China has outpaced those inside the country for the first time, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). “The sudden increases of cases in Italy, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Korea are deeply concerning”, WHO Director-General […]
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NCD funds tapped as funding source as threat of corona virus looms
Proposed supplemental budget for FY 2020 taps the Non-Communicable Disease accumulated funds, General Fund Reserve and the available Green Fee monies to fund the budget and limits using projected unrestricted local revenue as a funding source. “In spite of strong revenue performance in the 1st quarter, the ongoing threat of the Corona Virus and its […]
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Countries race to find cure for corona virus (COVID-19),Human trials authorized in the U.S.
Countries around the world are racing to find a cure for the quickly spreading coronavirus (COVID-19) that is now in 46 countries, infecting 78,065 people (as of yesterday) and killing 2,770. Person-to-person transmission is confirmed in several countries with new cases in the United States and Taiwan with no known source. In the United States, […]
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Iran news agency: Death toll from new virus in Qom is at 50
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A staggering 50 people have died in the Iranian city of Qom from the new coronavirus this month, Iran’s semiofficial ILNA news agency reported on Monday. The new death toll is significantly higher than the latest number of confirmed cases of infections that Iranian officials had reported just a […]
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Travel alert expands to include Japan and South Korea
Ministry of Health issued a travel alert to all travelers to avoid “non-essential travel” to include Japan and South Korea. This expansion of travel alert is not part of the current Executive Order that prohibits travel to China, Macau and Hong Kong. This expands the Ministry of Health’s travel alert issued on January 30th that […]