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WHO: China effort stopped thousands of infections
The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) group studying the new virus outbreak said on Monday that China stopped thousands of infections with their national containment efforts.
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OECD Says `We've Never Been in a Problem This Big'
Mar.17 -- The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has called for a more coordinated response to the spiraling coronavirus fallout. "We have never been in a problem this big with a type of enemy like this one," OECD...
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Sweden Says It Didn't Underestimate Seriousness of Virus
Apr.29 -- Sweden's health minister Lena Hallengren says the country has not underestimated the seriousness of the coronavirus, even though its measures for fighting Covid-19 are more relaxed than other countries. "We realized that this...
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CLEAN : Turning point as number of male smokers drops: WHO
The number of male tobacco users is falling for the first time worldwide according to the World Health Organization good news says Ruediger Krech Director of Health Promotion at WHO (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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Samoa Ends Measles-Related State Of Emergency
The Samoan government says it "unanimously approved the cancellation of the state of emergency orders," which had been in effect since November.
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WHO comment on experts meeting to discuss virus
The World Health Organization convened a group of experts on Tuesday to fast-track promising tests, drugs and vaccines to combat the virus that's spread from China to two dozen other countries.
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Coronavirus Death Toll Rises Past 100
Jan.28 -- The director general of the World Health Organization is visiting Beijing to assess China’s response to the corona virus. The country is now reporting more than 4500 cases and more than 100 fatalities. Global efforts to curb...
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Trump Says Xi Getting Virus `More and More Under Control'
Feb.25 -- President Donald Trump said U.S. markets “took a hit yesterday” because of concerns surrounding the coronavirus, but that Chinese President Xi Jinping is “getting it more and more under control.” He made the comments in New...
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Johns Hopkins' Toner Says China Is Too Late, Coronavirus Is Out of Control
Jan.30 -- Dr. Eric Toner, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security senior scholar, discusses the efforts to contain the deadly coronavirus outbreak. He speaks with Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu, Joe Weisenthal and Romaine Bostick on "Bloomberg...
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U.S. Issues Level 4 Advisory Not to Travel to China
Jan.30 -- The United States is telling Americans not to travel to China after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a global health emergency. Bloomberg’s Selina Wang reports on “Bloomberg Markets.”
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India’s Central Bank to Boost Liquidity to Counter Virus Risks
Mar.16 -- Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das speaks at a news conference in Mumbai about the decision to introduce liquidity measures aimed at blunting the economic impact of the coronavirus. The central bank kept rates...
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CLEAN : COVID-19: World Health Organization team set to arrive in Beijing
An international team of World Health Organization WHO experts is set to arrive in Beijing for a joint mission with Chinese counterparts as the death toll of the COVID-19 in mainland China rises to 1,523 according to the National Health...
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WHO Warns Against Cycle of Repeat Virus Lockdowns
Apr.04 -- The World Health Organization warned countries against abruptly dropping coronavirus lockdown measures, saying that careful planning is needed to prevent an economically destructive cycle of repeated restrictions. “If we lurch...
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Europe Equities Seen to Be More Vulnerable to Coronavirus
Feb.26 -- Christoph Schenk, chief investment officer at Zuercher Kantonalbank, discusses the impact of the coronavirus on the global economy and equity markets. He speaks on "Bloomberg Markets: European Open."
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Market Is Pricing in a Pandemic; Fed Likely to Cut: Pimco
Feb.26 -- Gene Frieda, global strategist at Pimco, and Maya Bhandari, multi-asset allocation portfolio manager at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, discuss the market reaction to the spreading coronavirus and how it may impact Federal...
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Coronavirus: Are African Countries Ready?
Feb.26 -- Professor Jimmy Whitworth of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine discusses the risk that the coronavirus poses to sub-Saharan Africa. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance."
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Fauci Says Overwhelming Majority of People Getting Infected Now Are Young
Jun.26 -- Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House coronavirus task force member and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, says some areas of the U.S. are doing well mitigating the spread of the coronavirus while...
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WHO: Must Learn to Live With Covid-19 as a Constant Threat
Sep.25 -- World Health Organization Special Envoy for Covid-19 David Nabarro discusses the global spread of Covid-19 and the organization’s message of learning to live with the virus. He speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.”
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CLEAN : Samoa measles death toll rises to 37 amid anti vax push: WHO
A measles epidemic raging in Samoa has killed 37 people the World Health Organization says blaming an anti vaccine messaging campaign for leaving the Pacific island nation vulnerable to the spread of the virus (Footage by AFPTV via Getty...
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Earliest Vaccine Release Could Be Early Next Year, Dr. Jonathan Quick Says
May.19 -- Dr. Jonathan Quick, Rockefeller Foundation managing director, says the earliest release of a Covid-19 vaccine could be in the first half of next year but most likely will be toward the end of 2021. He speaks with Bloomberg's...
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U.K. Public Told to Work From Home Again
Sep.22 -- The U.K. government is telling the public to work from home again. “If it is possible for people to work from home, then we’d encourage them to do so,” Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said on Sky News on Tuesday. Anna...
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WHO Now Says Role of Silent Virus Spreaders Still Unclear
Jun.09 -- Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the World Health Organization’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, said it remains unclear how readily the novel coronavirus is spread by people who don’t develop symptoms, a day after she sparked...
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Johnson Eases Lockdown With Go-Ahead for Pubs, Cinemas, Hotels
Jun.23 -- U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces that hotels, pubs, restaurants and cinemas will open their doors from July 4, in a significant relaxation of the restrictions imposed in March. Speaking in Parliament on Tuesday,...
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WHO Suspends Hydroxychloroquine Trial Over Safety Concerns
The WHO is pausing testing on hydroxychloroquine for a week or two while it reviews data to make sure it's safe to continue testing it.