Ebola

The total number of the new coronavirus cases in Greece has risen to 31, after 21 more people who came in contact with the country's ninth confirmed case tested positive, Greek Health Ministry spokesman Dimitris Tsiodras said in press briefing on Thursday.

The Health Ministry announced that the number of Greece's confirmed coronavirus cases has increased to nine.
The man, who had recently traveled to Israel and Egypt, is now in quarantine at a hospital in Patra in the Peloponnese. 
Public health officials have begun tracing the patient's other close contacts to ensure that appropriate measures are in place.

China reported another fall in new virus cases on Feb. 21 as health officials expressed continued optimism over the containment of the outbreak that has caused more than 2,200 deaths but has grown elsewhere.

Ten more people on a quarantined cruise liner in a Japanese port have tested positive for coronavirus, officials said on Feb. 6, as the virus death toll in mainland China hit 563, with almost 3,000 new cases reported.

China sent medical workers and equipment to a new hospital built in 10 days, infused cash into tumbling financial markets and further restricted people's movement in sweeping new steps on Feb. 3 to contain a rapidly spreading virus and its escalating impact.

Serbia is ready to carry out health surveillance at border crossings if the World Health Organization today declares a global health emergency.

Today, South Korea has confirmed the first case of a mysterious virus that appeared last month in China, heightening concerns about the spread of the epidemic.

More than 2,700 people contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2019, and more than 1,800 died. This is according to data from the World Health Organization, published in Geneva, TASS reported.

Police in Congo have detained the former minister of health amid an investigation into the use of Ebola funds as confirmed Ebola deaths rose to near 2,000 and confirmed cases of the virus exceeded 3,000 in the sprawling African nation.

The situation had become critical when the virus had spread to the city of Goma, home to two million citizens. This city is situated on the border with Uganda, and Congo officials claim that a priest who used several false names brought the disease into the city.