Now coronavirus reaches BRAZIL as 61-year-old tests positive

Now coronavirus reaches BRAZIL: 61-year-old tests positive for the deadly infection after returning from Italy in South America’s first case By Stephen Matthews Health Editor For Mailonline and Sam Blanchard Senior Health Reporter For Mailonline Published: 10:45 GMT, 26 February 2020 | Updated: 10:53 GMT, 26 February 2020 Brazil has become the latest country to … Read more

Coronavirus chaos see seven UK schools shut and 18 send pupils and staff home

Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. Over 2,700 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and more than 80,000 have been infected. But experts predict the true number of people with the disease could be as high as … Read more

Shoppers fight over food in supermarket within Italy’s ‘red zone’

This is the astonishing moment a fight breaks out at a supermarket inside the ‘red zone’ in Italy where 50,000 people have been placed in quarantine. With food running low in the few shops that have remained open after the spread of the coronavirus, the two shoppers came to blows near the tills as a … Read more

Thousands of Britons face mass coronavirus testing

Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. Over 2,700 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and more than 80,000 have been infected. But experts predict the true number of people with the disease could be as high as … Read more

Coronavirus chaos: Ireland’s Six Nations clash with Italy in doubt among multiple other events

Coronavirus chaos: Ireland’s Six Nations clash with Italy in doubt with the Tokyo Olympics and Cheltenham Festival at risk too in light of epidemic described as ‘the new war’ Coronavirus outbreak is threatening the postponement of major sport events Ireland are due to play Italy in the Six Nations on March 7 at the Aviva … Read more

British families trapped in Tenerife hotel as Italian doctor and wife test positive

British tourists are facing an agonising wait to find out if they can leave a hotel lockdown in Tenerife tonight after an Italian visitor and his wife tested positive for coronavirus.  Around 1,000 guests are being kept inside the H10 Costa Adeje Palace with padlocks on the doors, police patrolling the complex and the resort … Read more

Coronavirus spreads to the SOUTH of Italy as illness hits Sicily

Italy has confirmed its first case of coronavirus in the south after a holidaymaker from the north fell sick while visiting Sicily with her husband and friends. The 66-year-old woman, from Bergamo, travelled to the Sicilian capital of Palermo on Friday morning before her home region of Lombardy was put on lockdown following a surge … Read more

Pupils in Cornwall told to self-isolate after ski trip to coronavirus-hit Lombardy region of Italy

Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. Over 2,700 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and more than 80,000 have been infected. But experts predict the true number of people with the disease could be as high as … Read more