HEALTH

                The race is on to find out how the deadly Coronavirus jumped from animals to humans, Helen Briggs looks at how scientists are trying to trace the source of the outbreak. Somewhere in China, a bat flits across the sky, leaving a trace of Coronavirus in its droppings, which fall to the forest floor. A wild animal, possibly a pangolin snuffling for insects among the leaves, picks up the infection from excrement, the novel Covid-19 circulates in wildlife, eventually an infected animal is captured and a person somehow catches the disease, then passes it on to workers at a wildlife market. A global outbreak is born, scientists are attempting to prove the truth of this scenario as they work to find wild animals harboring the Coronavirus. Finding the sequence of events is a bit of a detective story , says Prof Andrew Cunningham of Zoological Society London ZSL, A range of wild animal species could be the host, in particular bats which...

                     The World Health Organization experts and according to latest statistics are saying that the United States is going to be the epicenter of Coronavirus outbreak, as the country is seeing a very large acceleration in cases, this comes amid concern the US president could be prioritizing the economy in his crisis response. Trump said he was eager to reopen the US economy in weeks, not months, even as the death toll from COVID-19 continued to rise, with more than 25,000 positive tests and 210 deaths, New York has become the epicenter of Coronavirus in the United States, the city now at a standstill faces a tsunami of sick and dying people , the Attack rate of the virus, the percentage of the population infected , is five times higher than in other parts of the country , leading Dr Deborah Birx, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, to warn "To all of my friends and colleagues in New York, this is the gro...

                    Spain is the second hardest hit country in Europe, Coronavirus is growing exponentially, cases went from 2 to 100 in one week then from 100 to 1,000 and from 1,000 to 4,000 in four days. Since March 14, when the Council of Ministers decreed the state of alarm, the whole of Spain has been formally closed, A huge self isolation in homes of more than 47 million citizens has been announced, who can only go out into the street alone just to work and buy food, medicine or basic items, COVID-19 continues its worldwide expansion, the highest number of those infected is found in the Chinese province of Hubei, where the virus was first detected last December, however while in China the number of infected people continues to add new cases "since last Thursday they have not recorded any new local contagion" beyond the borders of the Asian giant it expands unstoppable, only Iran and Italy add more than 80,000 tested positive c...