Category Pandemic Alert

Coronavirus: COVID-19 outbreak declared pandemic by WHO #COVID19 #coronavirus #UK #emergency #quarantine #pandemic #WHO

The coronavirus outbreak has now been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO). According to the WHO website, a pandemic is defined as the worldwide spread of a new disease. It can also refer to a disease which…

Australia enacts Coronavirus emergency response plan due to possible pandemic #COVID19 #coronavirus #Australia #pandemic #emergency #epidemic

Australian prime minister Scott Morrison has announced the implementation of a Coronavirus emergency response plan. “There is every indication the world will soon enter the pandemic phase of the virus,” he has just told reporters. “While the WHO is yet…

Coronavirus: Global death toll reaches 719 after 81 new fatalities in Hubei #coronavirus #GlobalEmergency #HealthEmergency #wuhan #hubei #china

The global death toll from the ongoing coronavirus outbreak has reached 719 after another 81 fatalities were recorded in China. The latest deaths came in Hubei province, where Wuhan – the city where the infection was first reported – is…

Coronavirus patient ESCAPES from hospital isolation unit – major police hunt launched in Austria #coronavirus #austria #Landeskliniken #Salzburg #wuhan #china #hospital #emergency

A MAJOR police search was launched today after a suspected coronavirus patient escaped from a hospital isolation unit. Officials in the Austrian city of Salzburg said the 31-year-old woman had fled the Landeskliniken Salzburg hospital overnight. Hospital bosses raised the…