Most schools across Germany will now be shut from Monday after North Rhine-Westphalia joined Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg and other states in announcing closures.
Mar 13, 2020
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As the COVID-19 outbreak intensifies, we're seeing mass isolation in virus epicentres, with about 500 million people in China "under varying degrees of quarantine", and all of Italy in lockdown.
Mar 13, 2020
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Robots and artificial intelligence are being deployed across the globe in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
Mar 12, 2020
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A University of Washington researcher calculates that 14.4 million workers face exposure to infection once a week and 26.7 million at least once a month in the workplace, pointing to an important population needing protection ...
Mar 9, 2020
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The number of people infected in Italy with the new coronavirus rose 40% to 1,576 in just 24 hours, Italian authorities announced Sunday, adding that five more infected people had died. The news came as a new U.S. government ...
Mar 1, 2020
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Moving to stem a vaping epidemic among young people, the House has approved a bill to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products.
Feb 28, 2020
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(HealthDay)—Americans may want to rethink the stereotype of the pot-loving teen: More U.S. seniors are using the drug now than ever before.
Feb 25, 2020
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Academics at Royal Holloway have developed a new genetic medicine that has been given the go ahead by the U.S Food and Drug Association (FDA) to be prescribed globally to a subset of patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy ...
Feb 25, 2020
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The head of the World Health Organization, alarmed by the recent spread of the coronavirus from Iran, warned Friday that while the chance to contain the virus globally still exists, "the window of opportunity is narrowing."
Feb 24, 2020
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A man who had travelled to Wuhan—the central city at the heart of China's coronavirus crisis –- was surprised when police showed up at his door after he returned home, asking to check his temperature.
Feb 8, 2020
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