The Red Sea International Film Festival has announced the details of its programme, competition lineup, and industry initiatives for its first edition at a press conference held at Bait Qabil in historic downtown Al-Balad, Jeddah.
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A growing number of countries around the world are evacuating or planning to evacuate diplomatic staff and citizens from parts of China and a cruise ship in Japan hit by the new coronavirus.
Following are some countries' evacuation plans, and how (...)
A growing number of countries around the world are evacuating or planning to evacuate diplomatic staff and citizens from parts of China hit by the new coronavirus.
Following are some countries' evacuation plans, and how they aim to manage the health (...)
Here are the latest developments around the coronavirus outbreak:
* The death toll in mainland China reached 1,770 as of Sunday-end, up by 105 from the previous day, while there were 2,048 new cases, bringing the total count to 70,548.
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More than 2,600 new cases were confirmed from a coronavirus outbreak in mainland China, health officials said on Saturday, a day after people returning to the capital from holidays were ordered to quarantine themselves for 14 days.
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An 80-year-old Chinese tourist has died of the new coronavirus in a hospital in France, French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn announced on Saturday. This announcement confirms the first death from the fast-spreading respiratory virus in Europe.
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A new coronavirus has taken a growing toll of Chinese health workers on the front line of the fight to stop it, a top official said on Friday, as authorities reported more than 5,000 new cases, including more than 120 deaths.
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The number of Egyptian companies participating at the current international exhibition of "Fruit Logistica" is 98, Abdel Hamid El Demerdash, chairman of the Agriculture Export Council (AEC), estimated, said. The companies will display 67 Egyptian (...)
China reported on Wednesday its smallest number of new coronavirus cases since January, lending weight to a prediction by its top medical adviser for the outbreak to end by April, but a global diseases expert warned of the spread (...)
A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 43,000 people globally.
The latest figures reported by global health authorities as of Tuesday in Beijing:
_ China: 1,016 deaths among 42,638 confirmed cases on the mainland. In addition, (...)
The daily death toll in China from a new virus topped 100 for the first time, pushing the total fatalities above 1,000 Tuesday as the World Health Organization announced a new name for the disease caused by the coronavirus .
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The World Health Organization convened outside experts Tuesday to fast-track promising tests, drugs and vaccines to help slow the outbreak of a new virus that emerged in China that has killed more than 1,000 people and spread to two dozen other (...)
The novel coronavirus killed about 811 people in China and two outside mainland China surpassing the number of death cases caused by the SARS epidemic of 2002-2003, according to official data released on Sunday by the Chinese health authorities.
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Workers began trickling back to offices and factories around China on Monday as the government eased some restrictions on working during a coronavirus epidemic that has killed more than 900 people, most of them on the mainland.
The death toll of 97 (...)
The Diamond Princess cruise ship off the coast of Japan has on Monday confirmed new 66 cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total number of infections to 136.
The new cases are from Japan (45), the U.S. (11), Australia (four), Philippines (three), (...)
China raised the death toll from the coronavirus epidemic to 811 on Sunday, passing the number killed globally by the SARS epidemic in 2002/2003 and raising anxiety among people preparing to return to work after an extended Lunar New Year (...)
China's fight against the novel Coronavirus outbreak increased with 722 people killed so far, surpassing the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2002, which recoded 774 deaths globally.
Coronavirus' death tool upped on Saturday, while 34,887 (...)
Here are the latest developments in the new coronavirus outbreak:
* China raised the death toll to 811 on Sunday, passing the number killed globally by the SARS epidemic, as authorities made plans for millions of people to return to work on Monday (...)
The new coronavirus epidemic in mainland China is almost certain to become more deadly than SARS on Saturday as the death toll passed 700, health experts warned of mask shortages and more cases were confirmed on a quarantined Japanese cruise (...)
A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 34,800 people globally.
The latest figures reported by global health authorities as of Saturday in Beijing:
_ China: 722 deaths and 34,546 confirmed cases on the mainland. In addition, Hong (...)
A Chinese doctor who issued an early warning about the coronavirus outbreak before it was officially recognised died of the virus on Friday, triggering a wave of public mourning and rare expressions of anger towards the government online.
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The following is a list of international sports events affected by the coronavirus, which has killed more than 550 people and infected over 28,000 in China after it first emerged in Wuhan, Hubei province, late last year:
Athletics
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Here are the latest developments:
**The death toll in mainland China rose to 563 on Thursday, up by a record 70 from the previous day, the National Health Commission said.
**The total number of infections in China rose by 3,694 on Thursday to (...)
China on Thursday finished building a second new hospital to isolate and treat patients of coronavirus that has killed more than 560 people and continues to spread, disrupting travel and people's lives and fueling economic fears.
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A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 28,200 people globally.
The latest figures as of Thursday in Beijing:
_ China: 563 deaths and 28,018 confirmed cases on the mainland. In addition, Hong Kong has had 22 cases, including one (...)
