Pregnant Katy Perry flees Australia after ‘coronavirus scare’

Katy Perry has fled Australia after spending 24 hours ‘in lockdown’ in her Sydney hotel due to coronavirus scare among staff at her record label. The American singer, 35, had spent a day at the Park Hyatt before taking her scheduled flight out of Sydney Airport. It’s believed she is returning to the United States, where she will reunite with her fiancé, … Read more

Guards dress up as GORILLAS to scare off monkeys near India’s border

Guards have dressed up as gorillas to scare off monkeys near India’s border while the country tries to manage a growing population of rampaging macaques.   Footage shows officials on the Indian side of the border wearing gorilla-type costumes and chasing a troop of macaques back to the jungle.  The booming primate population has reached crisis … Read more

2,300 passengers are kept on a cruise liner in latest coronavirus scare

Cruise ship passengers were kept on an ocean liner in yet another coronavirus scare at sea today after a former shipmate tested positive in Italy.  Some 2,300 people – including 39 Britons – were called back on board the MSC Opera from an excursion in Athens today and told not to leave the ship.  Once … Read more

2,000 passengers are kept on a cruise liner in latest coronavirus scare

2,000 cruise passengers are ordered back on board their ship off of Greece and told not to leave after it is revealed former passenger has coronavirus Some 2,000 people were called back to the MSC Opera from Athens excursion The captain revealed an Austrian man who left the ship in February had the virus He … Read more

ALEX BRUMMER: Coronavirus scare hammers shares

For the generation which might have forgotten – or even never known – what a stock market correction looks like, now is the time to learn. Fears of the corroding damage which coronavirus is having on the world economy have spread dramatically, delivering the worst week for share prices across the globe since the peak … Read more

Jon Snow coronavirus scare: Channel 4 journalist is in quarantine after travelling to Iran

Jon Snow coronavirus scare: Channel 4 journalist, 72, is in quarantine after travelling to Iran to cover their election after 16 people died in growing outbreak there He is following Department for Health guidelines, according to Channel 4 News  Snow does not have symptoms of the virus and did not visit the worst-hit areas Snow’s … Read more