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What we know now about where coronavirus came from
- World
- December 13, 2020, 14:20
Officials have learned a lot since last winter when a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown origin was reported in China Maria van Kerkhove was (...)

Coronavirus: Local officials in China hid dangers from Beijing, US report finds
- Asia-Pacific
- August 20, 2020, 10:16
Trump administration officials have tried taking a political sledgehammer to China over the coronavirus pandemic, asserting that the Chinese Communist(...)

Coronavirus: Germany sees highest number of new cases in over three months
- World
- August 13, 2020, 21:16
More than 20.72 million people have now been reported to have been infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 749,629 have died, according to a Re(...)

Vietnam bans wildlife trade to reduce risk of new pandemics
- Asia-Pacific
- July 24, 2020, 08:56
Vietnam’s prime minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued a directive to ban the southeast Asian country’s wildlife trade with immediate effect in order to(...)

Coronavirus: Man had Covid-19 in Cork in late February before first confirmed Irish case
- Health
- June 14, 2020, 14:25
Doctors at Cork University Hospital have identified a case of Covid-19 in February that appears to predate the first known Irish case. They say the c(...)

India overtakes Italy as sixth-worst country affected by Covid-19
- World
- June 6, 2020, 09:55
India has overtaken Italy as the sixth-worst country affected by the coronavirus pandemic after announcing almost 10,000 new cases. India surpassed I(...)

European centre warns against lifting Covid-19 restrictions too quickly
- Health
- April 24, 2020, 01:20
Irish Covid-19 infection rates rose by a higher percentage than elsewhere in Europe during the middle of April, according to a report from the Europea(...)

How Taiwan has confounded predictions in fending off the worst of Covid-19
- Health & Family
- April 19, 2020, 06:01
In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers at John Hopkins University predicted that Taiwan would be one of the countries most affected b(...)

Coronavirus: Italy records lowest deaths in three weeks as Spain eases lockdown
- World
- April 12, 2020, 14:54
Italy recorded its lowest number of new coronavirus deaths in three weeks on Sunday, saying 431 people died in the past day to bring its total to 19,8(...)

The Irish Times view on press freedom and Covid-19: pretext for a crackdown
- Editorial
- April 7, 2020, 19:30
Since the earliest days of the coronavirus outbreak, autocratic governments have sought to control and suppress information on the disease. Using cens(...)