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Turkey's Health Minister Fahrettin Koca has proposed an individually-declared emergency rule for Turkish citizens as the coronavirus is infecting more people across the country, urging a strictly implemented self-containment for at least three weeks during which the pandemic could make its peak.

"Novosti" states that it is outrageous to bid on which day most people will be ill, as every effort has been made to slow down the spread of the virus by introducing a state of emergency and curfew.

The number of coronavirus deaths in Spain has doubled in the last day and nearly 8,000 have been infected, the Spanish health ministry said today, quoted by world agencies.

Greece's Health Ministry identified 11 new cases of the new coronavirus in the country, bringing the total number to 84.

Of those infected, 81 are Greek nationals and three are foreigners, ministry spokesman Sotiris Tsiodras said in a press briefing on Monday, without specifying the nationality of the foreigners.

Mainland China reported a rise in new confirmed cases of coronavirus on March 5, reversing three straight days of declines, because of a spike in new infections in Wuhan, the city at the centre of the outbreak.   

The government on Thursday moved a step closer to enforcing a set of emergency measures for the containment of the coronavirus after health authorities confirmed that two more people have tested positive for the virus, bringing the total number of cases in Greece to three.

It was simply a matter of time before the corona virus crossed the borders of Greece as it did yesterday and now we must learn how to live with it.

As trite as it may seem until a suitable treatment is developed to manage the virus the only "antidotes" are calm, prevention, and reliable information.

A new coronavirus test developed by Turkish doctors will yield faster diagnoses, an official from Turkey's National Virology Laboratory told reporters on Feb. 17.

"The new system, which originally worked in 90 minutes, allows us to work faster by using domestic components," Dr. Gülay Korukluoğlu, speaking on behalf of the Health Ministry, said in Ankara, Turkey's capital.

Greek health authorities were on alert on Thursday after confirming the first African swine fever (ASF) case at a small pig farm in the region of Serres, northeastern Greece.

The Ministry of Agriculture announced on Wednesday that the disease was recorded in a family business.

On December 30, Li Wenliang "dropped a bombshell" in his medical school alumni group on the popular Chinese messaging application, informing them that seven patients from a local seafood market had been diagnosed with a SARS-like illness and quarantined in his hospital.