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Minister of Health says SA is on high alert for coronavirus
There’s fear and anxiety across the globe as the coronavirus spreads, with 4,500 cases already confirmed, most of them from China. The virus has so far claimed the lives of more than a hundred people. #Coronavirus #SouthAfrica #MinisterOfHealth
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INFOGRAPHIC: Beyond good & evil: Virus quick facts
Is a virus living or not? Check out the fact file below on viruses, which are among the most abundant organisms on the planet.
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Minister Mkhize: No need to panic in SA over coronavirus
Since the outbreak was detected in China a month ago, at least 132 people have died, and more than 6,000 people have been affected.
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SA teachers in China: People are extremely scared amid coronavirus outbreak
A South African teacher working in Shanghai has described scenes of empty streets in one of the world’s most populated cities.
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SA adequately prepared for coronavirus, case detected in Zambia - Mkhize
The virus has spread to more than 15 countries since it emerged out of Wuhan late last year, although all the 132 confirmed fatalities have so far been in China.
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Foreigners flown out of China virus epicentre, death toll hits 132
The scale of the deepening crisis was emphasised with the new infection number on the Chinese mainland exceeding that of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2002-03.
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Xi says China fighting 'demon' virus as nations prepare airlifts
In a development that could cause more jitters abroad, Japan and Germany reported the first confirmed cases of human-to-human transmission outside of China.
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SA Health Dept ‘taking necessary precautions’ to deal with coronavirus
At least 106 people have succumbed to the virus with most deaths recorded in China.
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FACTBOX: The new coronavirus - What is it and how does it behave?
Coronavirus infections have a wide range of symptoms, including fever, coughing, shortness of breath and breathing difficulties.
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China virus death toll tops 100 as contagion spreads abroad
While a host of nations prepared to airlift their citizens from the epicentre of the epidemic, Japan and Germany reported the first cases that were not directly imported from China.
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ANALYSIS: New China virus is bigger threat to world economy than SARS
The world’s second-largest economy, already weak, now accounts for a much larger share of global growth. No wonder investors are jittery.
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Coronavirus outbreak: Countries where virus has been detected
A map showing countries and territories where cases of the China virus have been confirmed as of 28 January, 2020.
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China says WHO against virus-related evacuations, as countries plan pull-outs
The King also ordered measures to prevent the spread of the disease to be taken at airports and ports and hospitals.
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Watch as China races to build 2 virus hospitals within days
The 25,000-square-metre hospital will have between 700 and 1,000 beds to treat patients of a pneumonia-like virus that has killed 81 people and infected more than 2,700 across the country. The second facility will have 1,300 beds.
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China virus death toll passes 100 as US, Canada issue travel warnings
Officially known as ‘2019-nCoV’, the newly identified coronavirus can cause pneumonia, but it is still too early to know just how dangerous it is and how easily it spreads.
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The global spread of the coronavirus: Where is it?
Here are the places that have confirmed cases of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus.
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Global alarm grows as China's capital reports first virus death
The death in Beijing raises the death toll from the new virus to 82, with more than 2,700 people infected across the nation and cases found in more than a dozen other countries.
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Anger mounts over China government's response at epidemic epicentre
The comments are a rare instance of public anger outpacing the army of online censors in China, where criticism of government figures is usually scrubbed.
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Coronavirus outbreak: Dirco issues warning for S.Africans in China
Eighty-one people died in mainland China and around 2,800 people were infected with the virus.
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Equities and oil tank as deadly coronavirus triggers panic
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned over the weekend that China was facing a 'grave situation' given the 'accelerating spread' of the new SARS-like virus that has infected nearly 1,300 people across the country.
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SA health officials step up efforts to detect coronavirus
Eighty people have died in China from the coronavirus with almost 3,000 more confirmed ill.
