Category Virus Alert

Second strain of coronavirus causing pigs to vomit in China ‘could spread to humans’

Humans could catch another coronavirus strain that has been causing pigs to have severe diarrhoea and vomiting in China. Swine acute diarrhoea syndrome coronavirus – known as SADS-CoV – is thought to have come from bats and has been threatening…

Coronavirus: France declares state of emergency as night-time lockdown imposed on Paris and eight other cities

A state of emergency has been declared in France, and President Emmanuel Macron has announced a curfew between 9pm and 6am for the areas worst-affected by coronavirus. Ile-de-France and eight metropolitan areas – including Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Aix-Marseille, Saint Etienne…

Coronavirus: Three UK NHS Nightingale hospitals mobilised again – with staff to get regular tests

Temporary Nightingale hospitals in Manchester, Sunderland and Harrogate are being told to get ready to take patients – as Covid-19 cases spike.. NHS England’s Professor Stephen Powis told a Downing Street briefing there would also be increased testing of health…