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U.S. House panel calls March screening of travelers from Italy, South Korea ineffective
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration failed to conduct effective coronavirus screenings of airline passengers entering the United States from Italy and South Korea in early March, when cases of the virus were multiplying, a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee said on
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81 quarantined people who returned from Italy allowed to go home
NILAI: A total of 81 people comprising Malaysians and their families, as well as six non-Malaysians, who arrived from Italy on March 26 were today allowed to go home after undergoing 14 days of quarantine at the Higher Education Leadership
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From zero to hero: Italy’s Chinese help beat coronavirus
FLORENCE : In the storm of infection and death sweeping Italy, one big community stands out to health officials as remarkably unscathed — the 50,000 ethnic Chinese who live in the town of Prato. Two months ago, the country’s Chinese
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Trump backs off plan to reopen businesses by mid-April amid coronavirus warnings
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Sunday extended his stay-at-home guidelines until the end of April, dropping a hotly criticized plan to get the economy up and running by mid-April after a top medical adviser said more than 100,000 Americans could
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Italy coronavirus deaths rise by 683 in a day, lifting total death toll to 7,503
ROME: The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has grown by 683 to 7,503, the Civil Protection Agency said on Wednesday, a decline in the daily tally of fatalities following a spike the day before. On Tuesday
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Italy coronavirus deaths at 5,476 after 651 rise
The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic continued its relentless rise in Europe on Sunday with Italy announcing 651 dead in one day, bringing its total to 5,476. It was an increase of 13.5 percent but down from Saturday’s figure when 793 people
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Uncounted among coronavirus victims, deaths sweep through Italy’s nursing homes
MILAN: As the official death toll from Italy’s coronavirus outbreak passes 2,500, a silent surge in fatalities in nursing homes, where dozens of patients a day are dying untested for the virus, suggests the real total may be higher. Official
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‘All is well’. In Italy, triage and lies for virus patients
MILAN: The fight against death pauses every day at 1 pm. At that time, doctors in the intensive care unit of Policlinico San Donato phone relatives of the unit’s 25 critically-ill coronavirus patients, all of whom are sedated and have
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COVID-19: Wisma Putra to bring back Malaysians from Italy, Iran
KUALA LUMPUR: Wisma Putra is making detailed preparations to bring back 323 Malaysians from Italy and 55 from Iran, following the worsening COVID-19 outbreak in the two countries. Foreign Minister, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said preparations included identifying the locations of
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COVID-19: South Korea reports more recoveries for first time
SEOUL: South Korea reported more recoveries from the coronavirus than new infections today for the first time, since its outbreak emerged in January, as a downward trend in daily cases raised hopes, that Asia’s biggest epidemic outside China may be
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