Search for coronavirus cure becomes a global competition with more than 20 clinical trials

Search for coronavirus cure becomes a global competition with more than 20 clinical trials in Britain, the rest of Europe, China and the US Development for a cure normally takes up to five years before being released US Biotech company Moderna has already started tests on humans Another US firm Inovio hopes to produce one … Read more

Further 793 people die of coronavirus in Italy in the past 24 hours

Almost 800 people die of coronavirus in Italy in the past 24 hours taking country’s death toll to 4,825 – with 53,500 now diagnosed in crisis-hit country By Jemma Carr For Mailonline Published: 17:16 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 17:26 GMT, 21 March 2020 Italy’s death toll has skyrocketed by 793 in just 24 hours … Read more

Further 793 people die of coronavirus in Italy in the past 24 hours

Further 793 people die of coronavirus in Italy in the past 24 hours taking country’s death toll to 4,825 – with 53,500 now diagnosed in crisis-hit country By Jemma Carr For Mailonline Published: 17:16 GMT, 21 March 2020 | Updated: 17:16 GMT, 21 March 2020 Italy’s death toll has skyrocketed by 793 in just 24 hours … Read more

President Trump ignored CIA warnings about coronavirus pandemic, sources claim

President Trump ignored warnings from US intelligence agencies about the threat of a coronavirus pandemic, according to a bombshell report in The Washington Post.  One intelligence official and several Trump Administration officials spoke to the publication Friday on the condition of anonymity, claiming the President downplayed the COVID-19 threat in spite of growing anxiety from … Read more

President Trump ignored CIA warnings about coronavirus pandemic, sources claim

President Trump ignored warnings from US intelligence agencies about the threat of a coronavirus pandemic, according to a bombshell report in The Washington Post.  One intelligence official and several Trump Administration officials spoke to the publication Friday on the condition of anonymity, claiming the President downplayed the COVID-19 threat in spite of growing anxiety from … Read more

More than 80% of coronavirus patients only get mild symptoms

Most people who catch coronavirus will only get mild symptoms and recover, recent data from China suggests.  Researchers there found that more than 80 percent of people diagnosed with the disease sweeping the globe only developed fever, cough and some aches and pains It’s cause for some optimism as deaths in the US surpass 200 … Read more

Coronavirus is spreading faster in America than it EVER did in China

ALABAMA Alabama health officials on Tuesday ordered the closure of day cares, senior centers and on-site restaurant dining in six counties to contain the coronavirus outbreak.  The order from the Alabama Department of Public Health applies to Jefferson County, which has the highest number of cases, and the surrounding counties of Tuscaloosa, Walker, Blount, St. … Read more

Map reveals how the coronavirus outbreak has rapidly spread across the world

What is the coronavirus?  A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more

Beijing’s expert suggests the US may have got a strain of the coronavirus before China

A Chinese medical expert has suggested that the US may have obtained a specimen of the novel coronavirus before China did, raising the possibility that Washington had known about the disease before Beijing. Dr Chen Xuyan from Beijing claimed that the first possible vaccine had entered clinical trials in America ‘way too quickly’.  She made … Read more