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  • Việt NamVợ chồng sao Hollywood Tom Hanks và Rita Wilson nhiễm virus corona
    Thuỳ DungPublished: 23:05, 12 March 2020
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    Vợ chồng sao Hollywood Tom Hanks và Rita Wilson nhiễm virus corona

    Tài tử Tom Hanks và vợ Rita Wilson có xét nghiệm dương tính với virus corona mới gây dịch COVID-19. Họ là những người nổi tiếng đầu tiên công khai nhiễm dịch bệnh này. Tom Hanks và Rita Wilson, cả hai cùng tuổi 63, tiết lộ thông tin này thông qua một thông báo hôm 11-3 (giờ Mỹ). Tờ Variety…

  • Covid-19 NewsCovid-19 now a world pandemic, World Health Organisation
    ThaigerPublished: 07:26, 12 March 2020
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    Covid-19 now a world pandemic, World Health Organisation

    The Covid-19 coronavirus has now been identified in at least 114 countries, whilst killing more than 4,000 people. From an outbreak, to an epidemic, the coronavirus has now been declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation. Even though media outlets around the world were starting to use the ‘P’ word, the WHO had so far resisted raising the…

  • Việt NamViệt Nam tạm ngưng miễn thị thực với công dân Hàn Quốc
    Thuỳ DungPublished: 14:44, 28 February 2020
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    Việt Nam tạm ngưng miễn thị thực với công dân Hàn Quốc

    Từ 0h ngày 29-2, công dân Hàn Quốc vào Việt Nam với thị thực phù hợp do Việt Nam cấp, cách ly y tế người bay từ Hàn Quốc, hoặc ở Hàn Quốc trong vòng 14 ngày và bay từ nơi khác về Việt Nam. Sáng nay, Ban Chỉ đạo phòng chống dịch bệnh viêm đường hô hấp cấp do…

  • Covid-19 NewsUPDATE: China coronavirus deaths reach 1665, Taiwan reports first fatality
    ThaigerPublished: 19:37, 16 February 2020
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    UPDATE: China coronavirus deaths reach 1665, Taiwan reports first fatality

    UPDATE: Taiwan has confirmed its first death from the coronavirus. Malaysia says it won’t allow any more passengers from the Westerdam cruise ship to enter the country from Cambodia, after an American woman who flew into Kuala Lumpur was diagnosed with the coronavirus. China said today the number of coronavirus cases nationwide had reached 68,500, with the death toll rising…

  • Covid-19 NewsCoronavirus – WHO says it remains unclear when people become contagious
    ThaigerPublished: 12:21, 28 January 2020
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    Coronavirus – WHO says it remains unclear when people become contagious

    The World Health Organisation has announced that… “it remains unclear if the deadly coronavirus, which broke out in Wuhan, China five weeks ago, is contagious during its incubation period before symptoms appear. The virus, causing a pneumonia-like respiratory infection, has killed more than 100 people and infected over 4,500 in China, while cases are now identified in more than a dozen…

  • Covid-19 NewsCoronavirus v SARS, a quick comparison
    ThaigerPublished: 10:17, 28 January 2020
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    Coronavirus v SARS, a quick comparison

    SARS, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, was a viral respiratory disease caused by the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). Between November 2002 and July 2003, the eight month outbreak in southern China infected a total of 8,098 people, resulting in 774 deaths in 17 countries. Two years ago Chinese scientists traced SARS’ origins through the intermediary of civets (cat-like small mammals) to…

  • Covid-19 NewsCoronavirus UPDATE: 2,700+ infected, 80 dead, 8 cases in Thailand
    ThaigerPublished: 09:33, 27 January 2020
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    Coronavirus UPDATE: 2,700+ infected, 80 dead, 8 cases in Thailand

    We bring you all this morning’s key updates in news about the spread of the Novel Coronavirus. Whilst there is plenty of speculation and rumours in social media, The Thaiger will only be publishing news that has been corroborated by authorised medical and scientific organisations or quoted with attribution in leading world media. As the story is developing quickly we…

  • World NewsWorries over drug-resistant Malaria strains spreading from Cambodia
    ThaigerPublished: 08:17, 24 July 2019
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    Worries over drug-resistant Malaria strains spreading from Cambodia

    Drug-resistant forms of malaria-causing parasites are spreading across south east Asia leading to “alarmingly high” treatment failure rates of frontline medication. Scientists say that a strain of Malaria, known as KEL1/PLA1, has evolved and picked up new genetic mutations which may make it more resistant to drugs. They are warning that strains of malaria, resistant to two key anti-malarial medicines, are…