James Patterson

The total deaths as of Monday are 5,476 with 651 additional deaths added to Saturday’s 793 fatalities.

At Highland Hospital in Oakland, California, the staff has been told to reuse surgical masks, presumably reused by the same person.

Chinese Red Cross Vice President Sun Shuopeng said the conditions in Northern Italy are “..similar to what we experienced two months ago in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of COVID-19."

Compared to Italy’s death rate of about 8.3% (2,978 deaths/35,713 cases), South Korea’s rate is only 0.7% (91 deaths/8,565 cases) from the coronavirus.

Spanish scientists have found that the coronavirus genome that infected the first victims has mutated into a “distinguishable” form from the original.

It took a pandemic by the name of COVID-19 to do it but finally, U.S. President Donald J. Trump has announced something that his political rivals can agree with him on.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released a statement: “The air traffic control tower at Midway Airport is temporarily closing while we ensure a safe work environment for air traffic controllers and technicians."

Guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell sailed past the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea on March 10, angering Beijing.

The coronavirus pandemic is raising more questions than answers as the virus spreads around the globe. One perplexing question is: Why does South Korea have fewer deaths than Italy?

Brunei and Singapore have reported new cases linked to the gathering and that led to Singapore announcing that travelers entering from other ASEAN countries, Japan, Switzerland, and the U.K. will be subject to a 14-day notice to stay home in self-quarantine.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Sunday, “To say the least, this is a very troubling moment, a moment where I am just distraught at having to take this action. But I became convinced over the course of today that there was no other choice. We may have to go out for the rest of the school year, we may not have the opportunity to re-open them.”

“More cases are now being reported every day than were reported in China at the height of the epidemic,” said WHO chief Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus.

The purpose of the domestic travel ban is to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, now classified as a global pandemic.

North Korea’s health care system is probably not prepared to deal with a major health crisis.

The two infected officers worked at the security checkpoint inside Terminal B, which is primarily serviced by Alaska Airlines and Southwest Airlines.

This latest visit, by the USS Theodore Roosevelt, comes at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is dominating world news headlines.

The concern with Duterte is that he fits the description of those most vulnerable to the coronavirus almost perfectly. He is 74 years of age and just a few months ago raised some eyebrows when he appeared “disheveled” during a visit to Russia.

Iran’s critics are maintaining that the country’s top leaders are painting a much rosier picture instead of revealing the true situation of vastly higher numbers in both categories.

Bill Browder alleges that Moscow uses these professionals to mask its “entangled” state and criminal interests, that it deploys them to attack Putin critics, “enhance Russian propaganda and disinformation,” and to “facilitate and conceal massive money-laundering operations.”

The reason for the ship’s presence is unknown but believed to be “benign” or of a non-military nature.

The demands include paid sick leave, bolstering unemployment insurance, and "widespread and free" testing for COVID-19.

House Rep. Paul Gosa is following Cruz’s lead and imposing a self-quarantine after contacting the same infected individual.

The Syrian civil war has lasted nine years and claimed an estimated 500,000 lives.

The possibility of Tokyo being unable to or not allowed to host the Summer Olympics is not yet a major concern to IOC’s President Thomas Bach who never mentioned the words “cancellation” or “postponement” in a recent meeting with the games’ organizers.

According to the latest numbers, the death toll in Italy touched 107 and total confirmed cases are at 3,089 as of 7:15 a.m. UTC.

His latest comments came on Tuesday before the president was scheduled to participate in the oath-taking ceremony of some newly appointed officials in Malacañang, the presidential palace in Manila.

Duterte, in early February, canceled an agreement in place since 1998 called the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) that allowed U.S. troops legal authority to carry out military exercises and humanitarian assistance operations on a rotating basis.

China is still the overwhelming contributor in all three statistics, but the number of new cases is in decline in Wuhan and other cities in China.

The United States military will participate in the Defender-Europe 2020 exercises scheduled to take place in April and May. The exercises will involve the deployment of about 20,000 U.S. forces along with 17,000 troops from other countries. The convoy across the Atlantic to prepare for the exercises is the first and largest of its kind since 1986 and is already underway.