BAGHDAD
Iraq on Monday confirmed the first case of the coronavirus in the country’s Najaf city.
Ridvan Kindi, the head of the Health Department in Najaf city in south of capital Baghdad, said an Iranian student has tested positive for the coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19.
The student was immediately quarantined and necessary measures were taken, Kindi said.
oh boy...a classified briefing..
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All senators will be briefed tomorrow in classified setting on Coronavirus, per Senate sources. They will hear from officials from a variety of agencies, including HHS, DHS, CDC, NIH and State. It comes as administration preps emergency funding request to deal with outbreak
Coronavirus: seventh victim in Italy, a patient on dialysis. WHO: ‘Very worried’
The quarantined North. No problem for supermarket warehouses. EU, professional response from Italy
ANSA editorial staff 24 February 2020 20:45
There are seven victims in Italy for the coronavirus, six in Lombardy and one in Veneto. The patient transferred from Lodigiano on the weekend tested positive for the Coronavirus swab died at the Sant’Anna hospital in Como. The 62-year-old resident of Castiglione d’Adda, who had already been dialysed, had a number of important past chronic diseases. He had contracted Covid-19 and had been transferred to the Como hospital on the night between Friday and Saturday. This is learned from hospital sources confirmed by the Region.
Another victim of Castiglione d’Adda was 80 years old: he died at the Sacco hospital in Milan. Last Thursday he was taken to hospital in Lodi from 118 for a heart attack, the same day that the 38-year-old who arrived was the first patient tested positive for the virus. The octogenarian was hospitalized in intensive care and then, tested positive for the virus, transferred to the Sacco in Milan where he died. In Lombardy, the number of infected people rose to 172. In Veneto, however, confirmed cases rose to 32