Five new cases in the virus epicentre as China locks down Shulan
Top official says work under way to reform system
Chinese youngsters in the global virus epicentre of Wuhan filed back to class on Wednesday, wearing masks and walking in single file past thermal scanners. Senior school students in 121 institutions were back in front of chalk boards and digital...
China is investigating ways in which coronavirus originated and spread
Shutting down these hubs would impoverish culture and hurt the poor
A number of countries have complained about faulty masks
Beijing has already committed $20 million
China announced Thursday it will give another $30 million to the World Health Organization to help in the global fight against the coronavirus pandemic, days after Washington said it would freeze funding. The US, which is the WHO's biggest contributor,...
China has rejected Australia's call for a probe examining the global response to the coronavirus pandemic - including Beijing's early handling of the outbreak. Washington and several allies have accused China of failing to adequately respond to the...
A laboratory in the Chinese city at ground zero of the global coronavirus outbreak has rejected US theories that it spawned the pandemic, as President Donald Trump warned Beijing of consequences if it was "knowingly responsible". The denial came as...
The city's death toll is now 3,869
Voicing joy and excitement from behind face masks, tens of thousands of people fled Wuhan on Wednesday after a 76-day travel ban was lifted on the Chinese city where the coronavirus first emerged. Previously quiet train and bus stations bustled as an...
China on Tuesday reported no new coronavirus deaths for the first time since it started publishing figures in January, just a day before it plans to lift travel curbs from the contagion's epicentre of Wuhan. The twin milestones illustrate the progress...
World's most populous nation comes to a momentary standstill
Huawei said Tuesday it had sustained solid growth in its global businesses in 2019 despite a US campaign to isolate the Chinese tech giant, but warned of its "most difficult year" ahead. The stark warning came as a result of stringent US sanctions,...
Why is the US blaming China rather than taking a science-based approach?
Hongyi Culture had to postpone filming in Malta due to the virus
More than 600,000 cases reported globally since the outbreak began
The dire lack of protective gear for health workers is proving a threat to attempts to beat back the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organisation warned Friday. The WHO urged industrial powerhouse countries to ramp up production of personal...
China and the United States should "unite to fight" the deadly coronavirus pandemic, President Xi Jinping said in a call with Donald Trump on Friday, as he called for the US to improve relations. The two countries have clashed in recent weeks over the...
The consignment was sent from China
China announced Tuesday that a lockdown would be lifted on more than 50 million people in central Hubei province where the coronavirus first emerged late last year. But fears rose over a second wave of infections fuelled by people arriving from...
The novel coronavirus proved deadly in 1.4% of all people infected in the Chinese outbreak city of Wuhan, far lower than global estimates of the killer pandemic, researchers said Thursday. COVID-19 cases are soaring, with more than 200,000 confirmed...
China on Wednesday effectively ordered American journalists at the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal to leave the country in the Communist government's most severe move against foreign media in recent memory. The foreign ministry...
A spat between the US and China over the novel coronavirus escalated on Tuesday as President Donald Trump angered Beijing by referring to the pathogen as the "Chinese Virus." The two countries have sparred over the origin of the virus for days, with a...
China ramps up its measures to stem imported cases
A Beijing official promotes conspiracy theories about the virus
Just four new cases in Wuhan, the city where COVID-19 was first identified
Updates number of victims At least 10 people were killed in the collapse of a hotel used as a coronavirus quarantine facility in eastern China, the Ministry of Emergency Management said Sunday. Rescuers retrieved 43 people from the rubble, of whom 37...
Germany warned Wednesday that the coronavirus outbreak has turned into a global pandemic, as countries around the world bolstered supplies and boosted protective measures in a bid to slow the rapid rise of the deadly disease. While caseloads have...
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