HEALTH

        The Italian region of Lombardy has introduced stricter measures in a bid to tackle the spread of Coronavirus, under the new rules announced late on Saturday, sport and physical activity outside, even individually, is banned. Using vending machines is forbidden, the move comes as Italy reported nearly 800 Coronavirus deaths on Saturday March 21 and saw its toll for the past month reach 4,825 as the highest in the world, deaths from COVID-19 have exceeded those reported in china, Lombardy is the worst affected region in the country with 3,095 deaths, the region's President Attilio Fontana announced the new measures in a statement, Business have been asked to close all operations excluding essential supply chains, work on building sites will be stopped apart from those working on hospitals, roads and railways, all open air weekly markets have been suspended. Across Italy there have been 53,578 total cases to date with about 6,000 people having recovered, Lom...

                There's one country in the world that currently has the most knowledge and experience with Coronavirus, CHINA and specifically Hubei province, is where the COVID-19 disease emerged, it's where 83% of the 284,814 cases known to date have been recorded and it's where doctors and health authorities have been battling an epidemic for more than three months using unprecedented public health measures, including a cordon sanitaire and lock downs that affected millions. In recent weeks, though, the number of new infections and deaths reported in china has been declining, which suggests spread of the virus may have peaked there and that transmission is slowing down, at the same time cases are rapidly increasing in several other countries, with major outbreaks in Italy, Spain, South Korea and Iran, it's now critical that the rest of the world learn as much as it can from China's efforts to respond and limit the spread of the Coronavirus...

            The Coronavirus, till now Friday March the 20th, 2020 is affecting 183 countries and territories around the world and 1 international conveyance "The Diamond Princess cruise ship harbored in Yokohama, Japan. Due to the Coronavirus outbreak also known as  COVID-19, around 267,920 persons have fallen ill and 11,187 death cases and 90,603 recovered cases worldwide. In China as the epicenter of the outbreak, according to reports from 31 provinces, the Xianjiang Production and Construction Corps, there were 6,569 confirmed cases of which 2,136 were serious cases, a total of 71,150 discharged patients were cured and a total of 3,248 cases died, the total number of confirmed cases is now 80,967 were reported and 8,989 close contacts are still under medical observation. There were 0 new confirmed cases in Hubei province and 0 in Wuhan city, 703 cured cases "624 in Wuhan", 3 new deaths "2 in Wuhan", confirmed active cases 6,569 "61...

                 As the Coronavirus pandemic spreads, households across the United States are hunkering down and emptying out store shelves that normally stocked with toilet paper and paper towels sit empty at all the big supermarket stores, toilet paper has become the ultimate symbol of the panic buying, it is seemingly scooped up as soon as new rolls hit the shelves, companies that help supply these everyday paper products are stunned and trying to adjust to this rapidly evolving new normal in consumer behavior. This run on toilet paper has struck many people as peculiar, given that the need for the product is not expected to grow as millions of Americans adjust to working from home, closed schools, canceled events and other abrupt interruptions to daily life caused by the pandemic, but stockpiling is not an uncommon reaction provoked by fear, social scientists say, fear of running out, fear of the unknown and what is coming in the fut...

                                    China and United States standoff escalates as Beijing expels major US media staff, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post journalists among staff ordered to stop reporting and leave. China will expel US reporters of three major US news outlets, in a hugely damaging attack on foreign media coverage of the country and an escalation of the showdown over the press between Washington and Beijing. The decision announced just after midnight Beijing time, requires US citizens working for the three major media to halt reporting and hand in their press cards within 10 days, if their credential expire before the end of 2020. China usually gives journalists only 12 month visas and press cards, so the measure is likely to impact most correspondents, it will decimate some of the biggest newsrooms in China and force reporters with decades of experience cove...

                 Biological weapon expert Professor Francis Boyle says Continental observer that COVID-19 is a biological weapon came straight out of American laboratories: "The Corona Virus was designed as a weapon to spread effectively in the human population" with the complicity of the National Institutes of Health, with 27 institutes and research centers and more than 18,000 employees is the most major biomedical research center in the world, says the researcher who says that his accusations are only made by himself. These remarks prompted US and Arab media to republish a previous statement by Zhao Lejian the Foreign Ministry spokesman in which he accused America of being behind the manufacture of Corona Virus since 2015, for the professor who has read studies from Marseille and Montreal published in the Science Direct Antiviral Research, Wuhan Corona Virus came out of the laboratory BSL-4, it's an offensive agent of biological warf...

                Chinese official doubts the involvement of the United States military in bringing the Corona virus to his country. "Perhaps the US military bought the epidemic to Wuhan" In these terms, Chinese Foreign Ministry Zhao Lejian official accused the United States of being behind the outbreak of the Corona Virus, which spread in China and recorded more than 87,000 infections according to the Chinese National Health Commission, without providing any evidence to support its surprising accusations. The Chinese official considered that Americans do not deal with the issue transparently, asking them to disclose for their data. It mentions that a number of similar conspiracy theories spread through the means of Chinese social medias. In this tweet, Zhao posted a video to the head of the US Center of Disease Control and prevention during a congress testimony in which he said that the cause of death of some Americans who were believed to h...

               President Trump tested negative for the coronavirus, his doctor said in a memo released Saturday evening. The president's health has been a concern since he spent time at his Florida resort last weekend with a Brazilian official who was later found to have the disease. Doctor Sean P.Conley said in his memo:"One week after having dinner with the Brazilian delegation at Mar-a-Lago, the president remains symptom-free" At a news conference earlier Saturday, Mr Trump announced that he had been tested for the coronavirus on Friday night and was awaiting the results. Vice President Mike Pence also announced the extension of the administration's European travel ban to the United Kingdom and Ireland. Whether the president would be tested had been a matter of speculation since it first emerged that a member of Brazilian delegation that visited Mar-a-Lago had tested positive. Two other people who were with the president have tested posi...