As several more European countries, as well as the populous Brazil, confirm their first cases of the coronavirus, the World Health Organization has said that the majority of new cases being reported are now outside China.
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Friday that “this outbreak could go in any direction.”
The world’s major economies are being hit hard by demographic change. From China to Europe, they may well grow old before they grow any richer. Over the next three decades, the global number of older persons is projected to more than double, reaching over 1.5 billion persons in 2050. Currently, Eastern and South-Eastern Asia are home to the […]
Following Tuesday’s confirmation that two Irish dual-citizens have tested positive for coronavirus in Japan, it has since emerged that two other Irish citizens on board another recently quarantined cruise ship returned home to Ireland without being screened on entry.
China has expelled three Beijing-based Wall Street Journal staff from the country after the paper printed an op-ed headline which authorities there deemed “racist”.
The uncovering of an espionage plot at the heart of a Harvard advanced research lab, might be just the “tip of an iceberg” says retired American air force General, Steve Kwast. In a long ranging discussion on the technological arms race betwen the USA and China, covering issues from 5G to the emerging strategic domain […]
In the wake of reports of the rapid spread of novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) has said it is in “aggressive containment mode”, and fear the illness isn’t going away any time soon. “This virus is probably with us beyond this season, beyond this year, and I think […]
New diagnostic standards implemented in the province of Hubei means that yesterday’s figure of over 15,000 newly confirmed cases in a 24 hour period was almost nine times higher than the 1,638 cases reported the day before.
A Chinese woman living in Kerry is reportedly in isolation at Kerry University Hospital after she displayed similar symptoms to that associated with the deadly Coronavirus.
The consequences of the one-child policy continue to live with China. The latest demographic news from the world’s largest country is that its birthrate has dropped to its lowest level since the Communist Party took power in 1949. According to Al-Jazeera, the latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics has recently released data for 2019 […]
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A man is being treated in an isolation ward in Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital for symptoms consistent with coronavirus, which has so far caused 18 deaths in China. The BBC reports that he travelled to Northern Ireland from the city of Wuhan where the infection outbreak began. It is understood that the patient arrived from Wuhan […]