(2020-02-02). 300+ Indians brought home on board another special-purpose Wuhan flight as New Delhi confirms 2nd coronavirus case. rt.com 
An Air India flight carrying 323 Indians and seven Maldivians from coronavirus-stricken Wuhan touched down in New Delhi on Sunday morning. It's the second time Indian citizens were airlifted from China since the outbreak. | "The second flight from #Wuhan has just landed in #Delhi. We wish all those on board good health in the days ahead," tweeted Vikram Misri, Indian ambassador to China, extending gratitude to Beijing for greenlighting the evacuation. | It was the second time an Air India Boeing 747 has flown to the Chinese city at the epicenter of the deadly outbreak to rescue stranded Indians, many of whom a…
(2020-02-02). First lethal case outside China: WHO confirms death of coronavirus patient in Philippines. rt.com 
A man has died in the Philippines after testing positive for coronavirus, becoming the first lethal case of the outbreak outside China. The deceased recently returned from Wuhan, the center of the crisis. | The 44-year-old man died on Saturday after losing his battle with the deadly virus, which has claimed the lives of 304 people in China. The man, a resident of Wuhan, was admitted to a local hospital after displaying flu-like symptoms such as a cough and sore throat, the World Health Organization said. | Dr Rabi Abeyasinghe, WHO representative in the Philippines, confirmed at a press briefing on Saturday tha…
(2020-02-02). China's central bank pumps $173bn into economy to heal damage from coronavirus outbreak. rt.com 
The People's Bank of China (PBOC) will allocate a hefty sum to stabilize the currency market and ensure there is enough liquidity in the country's financial institutions, which remain thwarted by the sweeping coronavirus epidemic. | PBOC has That money will arr…
(2020-02-02). Viral defense: US military in S. Korea to quarantine troops returning from epidemic-hit China. rt.com 
Fearing that the novel coronavirus outbreak could harm military readiness, the US Forces Korea (USFK) has encouraged members who traveled to China to isolate themselves for a period of two weeks. | "USFK has instituted a 14-day self-quarantine for US service members returning from mainland China to South Korea on or after January 19, effective Sunday, February 2 at noon," it said in a statement released on Sunday. The measure is also "highly encouraged" for family members, DoD civilians, and contractors. | Meanwhile, the force said it's unaware of any American troops who traveled to the worst-affected province…
(2020-02-02). Pakistani students should NOT be evacuated from Wuhan as China has better medical facilities — envoy. rt.com 
Pakistani envoy to China said that local hospitals are better equipped to treat the deadly coronavirus, and therefore, unlike some other countries, Islamabad will not be evacuating its students amid the outbreak. | Pakistan's hospitals "do not meet the standards required to treat a patient diagnosed with coronavirus," Naghmana Hashmi said on Sunday, as cited by local outlet Geo News. | China, on the other hand, has "the best medical facilities to handle the patients suffering from the disease," the envoy stated. Hashmi said that Islamabad is working closely with Chinese officials to ensure that Pakistani stude…
(2020-02-02). First Coronavirus Death Reported Outside of China. telesurenglish.net The first Coronavirus-related death outside of China has been reported by the Philippines Department of Health on Sunday, raising the death toll to 305 since the start of the new year. | According to the Philippines Department of Health, a 44-year-old Chinese man from Wuhan, the city with the largest number of Coronavirus cases, died on Saturday due to the illness. | The Chinese man was rushed to a hospital in the city of Manila, where he later succumbed to the virus, the Philippines Department of Health said in their statement. | Some 304 people have died in China, the country's National Health Commission s…
(2020-02-02). Marinette, WI: Workers at Aurora Medical Center Bay Area stand up to union busting. fightbacknews.org Marinette, WI – 300 workers at Aurora Medical Center Bay Area in Marinette, Wisconsin are fighting back against management's attacks on their right to organize. These attacks include using the expiration of their contract to cease dues check-off, offering poverty wages, and consistently extending bargaining by conveying misleading and inaccurate information to workers. These tactics are a vicious attack on working people and our ability to provide for our families. | AFSCME Local 3305 represents medical and professional support staff at the hospital, which was purchased by Aurora Health Care Inc. in 2019. Aurora…
(2020-02-02). Trump and Trudeau discussed coronavirus in Friday phone call. yenisafak.com U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau discussed their countries' efforts to monitor, contain, and mitigate the rapidly spreading new coronavirus in a phone call on Friday, the White House said.U.S. health officials on Saturday confirmed that a Massachusetts man was the eighth patient to contract the flu-like illness in the United States, and the Pentagon said it would provide housing for people entering the United States from overseas who might need to be quarantined.Trump and Trudeau also discussed on Friday the landmark North American trade agreement that Trump signed on Wednesd…
(2020-02-02). Formula E calls off Sanya race due to coronavirus. yenisafak.com The all-electric Formula E motor racing series has abandoned plans for a race in the Chinese city of Sanya next month because of the coronavirus epidemic.The sport will continue to work with its regional partner and local authorities to study the viability of potential alternative dates should the situation improve, the Formule E and FIA governing bodies said in statements on Sunday.The race had been scheduled for March 21 in the coastal resort in Hainan province.The outbreak of the flu-like virus has killed more than 300 people and infected more than 14,000 in China after it first emerged in Wuhan in Hubei provi…
(2020-02-02). Turkey, Pakistan condole China coronavirus deaths. yenisafak.com Turkey, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Russia extended condolences to China over the loss of lives caused by the deadly coronavirus in the country, Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.According to the ministry, the foreign ministers of Turkey, Pakistan, Malaysia and Russia talked to their Chinese counterpart on the phone and expressed condolences over the death of more than 300 people from the novel coronavirus epidemic."State Councilor Foreign Minister Wang Yi had a telephone call with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. Cavusoglu expressed condolences and sympathy to those who passed away due to the novel c…
(2020-02-02). Indonesia to stop flights to and from China amid coronavirus epidemic. yenisafak.com Indonesia will temporarily stop flights to and from mainland China starting Wednesday and bar visitors who have been in China for 14 days from entering or transiting in the Southeast Asian country, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said on Sunday.The government will stop a policy to give free visa to Chinese nationals and also stop issuing visas on arrival for those who live in mainland China, she said, asking Indonesians not to travel to China amid the coronavirus epidemic.
(2020-02-01). Russia stops processing Chinese work visas & scraps visa-free travel amid coronavirus epidemic. rt.com 
Moscow has temporarily halted issuing work visas to Chinese citizens and suspended visa-free travel for Chinese tourist groups in response to the coronavirus epidemic in the country. | The travel restriction come into force from Sunday. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, who ordered them, stressed that the measures are temporary and are only meant to protect people in Russia from health risks posed by the infection — a point he asked the Foreign Ministry to make known to Beijing. | The agreement on visa-free travel for organized tourist groups works both ways, but the suspension by Russia applies only to…
(2020-02-01). US declares public health emergency over coronavirus, limits flights from China to 7 cities. rt.com 
The US has declared an ongoing coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency, limiting points of entry to incoming Chinese flights and banning from entry some foreign nationals who traveled to China in the last two weeks. | "I have today declared that coronavirus presents a public health emergency in the United States," Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said, announcing the measure on Friday. He stressed that the move was to "complement the work of China and the World Health Organization" that declared a global health crisis on Thursday. | The death toll from the novel virus, which originated in C…
(2020-02-01). Western Imperialism Stokes Resistance. dissidentvoice.org 
Tim Anderson's Axis of Resistance: Towards an Independent Middle East takes on the leftist position of 'a plague on all your houses'. Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, 'the intellectual voice of the Syrian revolution' (for westerners), presents a bleak portrait of "three monsters … treading on Syria's corpse": (1) the Assad regime and its allies, (2) DAESH/ISIS …
(2020-02-01). Soldiers Injure 14 Palestinians In Gaza. imemc.org Israeli soldiers shot, Friday, 14 Palestinians, including ten with live ammunition, during protests on Palestinian lands east of Jabalia city, in the northern part of the besieged coastal region. The Palestinian Health Ministry has reported that the soldiers, stationed in their fortified sniper towers across the perimeter fence, shot ten …
(2020-02-01). It Should Be Easy to Defeat Trump, But Corporate Democrats Look Ready and Willing to Blow It. commondreams.org Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) embrace after the Democratic Presidential Debate at the Fox Theatre July 30, 2019 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2020-02-01). Coronavirus Has Been Declared a Global Emergency. What's Happening in China. globalresearch.ca Tom Clifford reporting from Beijing | The new coronavirus has been declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization. | "The main reason for this declaration is not what is happening in China but what is happening in other countries," said …
(2020-02-01). Coronavirus: China Sees 2,590 New Cases, 45 New Deaths. telesurenglish.net Chinese health authorities Sunday said it received reports of 2,590 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection and 45 deaths on Saturday from 31 provincial-level regions and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. | RELATED: | All the deaths are in Hubei Province, according to China's National Health Commission. | Another 4,562 new suspected cases were reported on Saturday, said the commission. | Als…
(2020-02-01). Critics: Trump EPA's formal assertion glyphosate poses no risk to human health indication of 'troubling allegiance' with Bayer/Monsanto. nationofchange.org "The EPA's pesticide office is clearly willing to bend over backwards, including disregarding its own guidelines for evaluating cancer risks, to give the industry what it wants."
(2020-02-01). Death toll at 259 as more coronavirus cases confirmed. thecanary.co The death toll from the coronavirus has risen to 259 and the number of confirmed cases of infection has increased to 11,791, Chinese authorities said. | The World Health Organisation (WHO) has Meanwhile, the UK Foreign Office is reportedly withdrawing staf…
(2020-02-01). Panama Canal Declares Security Measures Against Coronavirus. telesurenglish.net The Ministry of Public Health of Panama confirmed the strengthening of security measures to prevent the entry of the Coronavirus 2019-nCoV into the country, which also affects the crossing of its transoceanic canal. | RELATED: | Vessels must notify within 30 days before arriving at the isthmus, if they have traveled to ports located in countries that have confirmed cases of the infection, Panama Canal Authorities…
(2020-02-01). US Pilots and Flight Attendants Demand Flights to China Stop. telesurenglish.net U.S.-based pilots and flight attendants are demanding their airlines stop flights to China, which have already been substantially reduced over the last week. | RELATED: | The Allied Pilots Association (APA), which represents American Airlines (AA) pilots, cited "serious, and in many ways still unknown, health threats posed by the coronavirus" in a lawsuit filed in Texas. | This legal action was supported by AA flig…
(2020-02-01). Trump administration announces major attack on Medicaid, capping benefits. wsws.org The Trump administration's proposed changes to Medicaid will potentially slash benefits for millions of recipients, while opening the door for a broader assault on other entitlement programs, including Social Security and Medicare.
(2020-01-31). UN agency declares the coronavirus a global health emergency. peoplesworld.org 
The World Health Organization, an agency of the United Nations, declared the outbreak ignited by a new strain of the coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China that has spread to over a dozen countries as a global health emergency Thursday after a rapid spike in the number of cases this past week. To date, more than 7,800 …
(2020-01-31). U.S. Declares Virus Emergency, New Entry Restrictions. truthdig.com 
WASHINGTON — The United States on Friday declared a public health emergency and announced significant entry restrictions because of a new virus that hit China and has spread to other nations. | Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, who is coordinating the federal response, announced that President Donald Trump has signed an order that will temporarily bar entry to the U.S. of foreign nationals, other than immediate family of U.S. citizens and permanent residents, who have traveled in China within the last 14 days. The new restrictions take effect at 5 p.m. EST on Sunday. | "It is likely that we wil…
(2020-01-31). Headlines for January 31, 2020. democracynow.org Senate Poised to Acquit President Trump in Impeachment Trial, World Health Organization Declares International Public Health Emergency, U.S. Special Envoy Warns of International Crisis in Idlib, Syria, Britain Formally Withdrawing from European Union Tonight, Pentagon Deploys 1st Low-Yield Nuclear Warhead-Armed Submarine, Trump Admin Poised to Loosen Restrictions on Use of Landmines, Human Rights Groups Condemn Mexico for Crackdown on Central American Migrants, Mexican Butterfly Conservationist Found Dead, Bolivia's Movement for Socialism Candidate Luis Arce Returns to Bolivia, U.S. Pushes EU to End Ban on Chemic…
(2020-01-31). Coronavirus Epidemic: WHO Declares a "Fake" Global Public Health Emergency. globalresearch.ca Out of 9600 confirmed cases, approximately 150 cases of infection have been recorded outside China. Moreover, (based on the above data, Jan 30), the 2019 nCoV has a low mortality rate (2.1%) compared to the Seasonal flu.
(2020-01-31). World Health Organisation Officially Declares Coronavirus a "Global Health Emergency" globalresearch.ca The World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday decided to formally declare the outbreak of 2019-nCoV, the new coronavirus first identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan, as a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)." The PHEIC classification was only established …
(2020-01-31). China's Coronavirus: A Global Health Emergency is Launched. What are the Facts. globalresearch.ca On January 30, the WHO declared the virus outbreak as a global emergency, an "extraordinary event" that constitutes a risk to other countries and requires a coordinated international response. This was prompted by the rapid rise in reported infections…
(2020-01-31). Chinese Resilience and Silent, Simple and Steady Resistance: a Model for Mankind. dissidentvoice.org In a positive appeal to the Chinese people last Saturday, President Xi Jinping has called on the nation's courage to defeat the deadly epidemic which has already claimed more than 80 lives and more than 2,000 infected worldwide, the vast majority in China. These figures are changing fast, as the spread of the epidemic is …
(2020-01-31). China's Virus Response Has Been 'Breathtaking'. globalresearch.ca President Xi Jinping formally told WHO head Tedros Ghebreyesus, at their meeting in Beijing earlier this week, that the coronavirus epidemic "is a devil and we cannot allow the devil to hide." | Ghebreyesus for his part could not but …
(2020-01-31). Selected Articles: How the FBI Sabotaged Trump Foreign Policy. globalresearch.ca 
By President Xi Jinping formally told WHO head Tedros Ghebreyesus, at their meeting in Beijing earlier this week, that the coronavirus epidemic "is a devil and we …
(2020-01-30). First case of direct transmission of coronavirus confirmed in US — CDC. rt.com 
The first US case of person-to-person coronavirus transmission has been recorded in Chicago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Illinois officials confirmed. | The new patient is the husband of a Chinese woman who brought the infection over from Wuhan, officials said Thursday at a press briefing. His wife is being held in isolation at a local hospital. | "Despite the case that we are reporting the first instance of person-to-person transmission in the United States, it is important to note that these two individuals were in close contact," said Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's Nation…
(2020-01-30). Coronavirus spread now a global emergency declares World Health Organization. news.un.org The rise in new coronavirus cases outside China, now constitutes a global health emergency, the World Health Organization's Emergency Committee declared on Thursday, calling on all countries to take urgent measures to contain the respiratory disease.
(2020-01-30). Cuba is Testing Products Against Cancer, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease. mintpressnews.com While demonized in the United States, the Cuban government has built a comprehensive nationalized healthcare system based on preventative medicine, rather than the curative model the U.S. employs…
(2020-01-29). Coronavirus: First case confirmed in Gulf region, more than 6,000 worldwide. news.un.org On Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the coronavirus outbreak has now spread to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The vast majority of cases continue to be declared in China, with more than 6,000 confirmed, 68 of them outside of the country.
(2020-01-29). South Dakota May Criminalize Lifesaving Healthcare for Trans Youth in Latest Attack on LGBTQ Rights. democracynow.org 
The South Dakota Legislature is expected to debate a bill today that would criminalize gender-affirming surgery for transgender youth. If passed, House Bill 1057 would make it a felony for doctors to provide anyone under the age of 16 with puberty blockers, hormones and other transition-related healthcare. Medical professionals who provide this care could face up to 10 years in prison under the terms of the Republican-backed bill, which was passed in committee last week. On Tuesday, South Dakota introduced another anti-trans bill that would authorize parents to deny gender-affirming treatment to their children. I…
(2020-01-28). What You Need to Know About the Coronavirus Outbreak: A Civil Liberties Perspective. aclu.org The world is watching anxiously to see what happens with the | coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China. As scientists and public health | officials in the United States learn more about the virus, and as we all see | how bad the outbreak turns out to be, it is important that public policymaking | remain firmly centered around science. | Unfortunately, our history of reactions to infectious | disease outbreaks suggests that if this outbreak becomes severe, we're likely | to see strong pressure to the contrary. In particular, we can expect three | things: | We can expect some to | panic.: | Unfortu…
(2020-01-27). Headlines for January 27, 2020. democracynow.org Impeachment Trial Resumes as Leaked Bolton Manuscript Bolsters Democrats' Case, Coronavirus Death Toll Reaches 81 in China as Disease Spreads Around the World, Pentagon: 34 U.S. Troops Have Brain Injuries After Iranian Attack on Iraqi Airbase, Deadly Crackdown on Iraqi Protests Continue as 100,000s March Against U.S. Military Presence, Turkey Earthquake Kills 38; At Least 1,600 Hospitalized, Ugandan Activist Vanessa Nakate Slams Racist Media After Being Cropped from Photo with White Activists, Trump Attends Anti-Abortion "March for Life" as Admin Continues Assault on Reproductive Rights, High-Ranking Pharma Exec…
(2020-01-24). Insurance Lobby Talking Points Don't Come With Warning Labels. fair.org 
Ever since The Intercept (