US VP says American pharmaceuticals are teaming up in a consortium to fight virus. FMTNews WHO Virus
2 women wearing masks walk away from the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington.
China has imposed draconian quarantines and travel restrictions to keep large swathes of the population indoors for weeks, a strategy that appears to have paid off as new cases have been falling this month. Community transmission means infections within a population are not imported from another virus-hit area.
The White House, which has been accused of downplaying the threat from the virus, continued to strike a bullish tone. Pence also announced American pharmaceuticals were teaming up in a consortium to fight the virus, and said that South Korea and Italy, two of the hardest-hit nations, would screen all their airline passengers bound for the US.
UN medical experts arrived in Iran on Monday to help it tackle the world’s second-deadliest outbreak, with 66 fatalities and more than 1,500 infections.
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