Fear of Coronavirus sparks run on face masks at pharmacies in Rome. Rome pharmacies have sold out of protective face masks amid a surge in demand due to concerns over the deadly Coronavirus, reports Italian news agency ANSA.more
A man has died of the coronavirus in the Philippines, the first confirmed fatality outside China. The patient was a 44-year-old Chinese man from Wuhan, in Hubei province, where the virus was first detected.more
The Spanish government, which forms the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and the radical leftist bloc Unidas Podemos (UP), passed a bill on the legalization of euthanasia to parliament, said socialist MP Adriana Lastra.more
Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, the management of LOT Polish Airlines decided to temporarily suspend flights to Beijing from Friday until the 9th of February 2020.more
Coronavirus has been detected in two patients in the same family in England, and these are the first such cases in the United Kingdom, said Chris Whitty, head of medical services in England.more
A plane carrying 83 British and 27 foreign nationals flew out on Friday from China's central city of Wuhan, the center of a virus epidemic that has killed more than 200 and infected more than 9,000, the British government said.more
Poland has asked the European Commission for help in organising the evacuation of Polish citizens from the coronavirus-affected central Chinese city of Wuhan under the EU's Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM), the Foreign Ministry told on Thursday.more
Authorities in southwest Germany arrested an intensive care nurse on Wednesday, suspecting she had attempted to kill five newborn babies in her charge with morphine, police in the city of Ulm said.more
The travel plans of tens of thousands of passengers have been thrown into chaos after British Airways cancelled all flights to and from mainland China.more
Will there be fees from patients who do not cancel their appointments? The Polish government is seriously considering such a possibility. Failure to see a specialist is a serious problem - the Polish daily "Fact" reports.more
Panic caused by an epidemic is worse than the epidemic itself; we do not leave the houses to avoid infection - says a resident of Wuhan in central China, which was virtually cut off from the world due to the new coronavirus epidemic.more
Sooner or later, the coronavirus will reach Poland and it will not be anything extraordinary, we are prepared for it - said Minister of Health Łukasz Szumowski today.more
The European Commission said on Tuesday it would help fund two aircraft to bring European Union citizens back from Wuhan, the Chinese city at the center of the coronavirus outbreak.more
British Airways has suspended all direct flights to China after the Foreign Office urged Britons not to travel to the country in response to coronavirus. more
Almost a third of UK doctors may be suffering from burnout, stress and "compassion fatigue", according to a survey that has raised concern about excessive workloads in the NHS.more
Representatives of the Ontario public health service in Canada have officially confirmed that the man who was initially diagnosed with the 2019-nCoV coronavirus was infected with it. The second person with coronavirus may be the patient's wife. The virus case has also been confirmed in Germany. "He was infected by a man from the Starnberg poviat in Bavaria," it was reported.more
Previous observations show that, on average, every fourth case of Wuhan coronavirus infection is serious, i.e. it cannot be compared to just a common cold, experts say.more
Public Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle suspects there could already be cases of coronavirus in the UK, but insisted the country is 'well prepared' for an outbreak.more
The Chopin Airport services monitor the situation and follow the recommendations of European and world organizations dealing with health protection regarding coronavirus; the port is prepared for epidemiological threats - said the spokesman Piotr Rudzki.more
The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has announced that since December 30 last year until January 26 this year 2 026 new coronavirus cases have been reported worldwide. 56 people have already died of the infection.more
