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The situation has been made worse by people who are not medical workers buying the protective gear for their own use, WHO chief said.

In its daily update, the regional health commission also confirmed another 3,399 new cases. There are now more than 34,500 confirmed infections across the country.

A second worker was injured when the loose cable towing the plane also rolled into the tractor, said Sumpun Kutranon, general manager at Don Mueang Airport.

More than 30 disinfection robots designed and produced by a Shanghai-based enterprise have entered major hospitals in Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, to combat the epidemic.

The cases filed against him and other senior managers in a Dhaka court relate to claims from Grameen Telecom (GT) employees for a share of profits, their lawyer Jafrul Hasan Sharif said.

Several international airlines, including Air India, have cancelled flights to China over fears of the virus spreading across the world, a move which Beijing described was against the WHO guidelines.

The government must report coronavirus outbreak information accurately in a timely manner, and will crack down on coronavirus related rumour-mongering, Xi said.

The ambassador said this at a press conference when he was asked to comment on China's charge that the US was trying to tarnish its image.

Moi, who ruled the country with between 1978 and 2002, died at his house, according to a relative.

The stampede occurred when the students left the school in western Kenya on Monday, local police said. An investigation is underway.

Huoshenshan Hospital and a second 1,500-bed facility due to open this week were built by construction crews who are working around the clock in Wuhan, the central city where the outbreak was first detected in December.

The UK formally left the EU on January 31 and is now in a pre-agreed period of transition during which it is free to open up trade talks with countries around the world.

Officials in Wuhan have been criticised for withholding information about the outbreak until the end of last year, despite knowing about the new illness weeks earlier.

'Playing mahjong outside is banned during the epidemic. You have been spotted. Stop playing and leave the site as soon as possible,' an official orders the villagers through a microphone while watching footage sent by the drone to his screen.

Victoria's environment department said the state's conservation regulator was investigating a "very distressing incident" at a bluegum plantation near the coastal town of Portland that resulted in the deaths of dozens of koalas.

According to the study, published in the journal The Lancet, given the lack of a robust and detailed records of suspected, probable, and confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus infection (2019-nCoV), the true size of the epidemic, and its pandemic potent...