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China reports Sunday first new local virus case in four days

Mar 22, 2020 (AFP)

While the number of virus cases has been falling over the past few weeks in China, there has been growing concern around imported cases as countries around the ...

Asia steps up virus efforts as second wave of infections strikes

Mar 22, 2020 (AFP)

Tighter travel restrictions were imposed in several countries as the number of cases in the region soared past 95,000 -- a third of the world's infections, an A...

China reports no new local virus cases for third day running

Mar 21, 2020 (AFP)

The rate of infection has been slowing for weeks in China, while the rest of the world steps up measures to try and battle the raging pandemic. The World Health...

Greece gets 500,000 masks from China to combat virus

Mar 21, 2020 (AFP)

Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias was among those at the airport to receive the load which was donated by the Chinese public electricity company State Grid and ...

Nearly one billion people confined to homes globally to curb virus

Mar 21, 2020 (AFP)

The pandemic has completely upended lives across the planet, restricting movement, shutting schools and forcing millions to work from home. While President Dona...

China reports no new local virus cases for second day

Mar 20, 2020 (AFP)

The country's drop in cases offers a ray of hope for the rest of the world as a slew of other nations go into lockdown in an effort to emulate China's tactic ag...

Moscow workers race to finish 'Chinese-inspired' virus hospital

Mar 20, 2020 (AFP)

Moscow city authorities are rushing here to construct a medical facility for coronavirus patients styled after a hospital built in record time after China's out...

Wuhan recovery gives hope to rest of world: WHO

Mar 20, 2020 (AFP)

The city of Wuhan registered no new cases of COVID-19 in 24 hours -- for the first time since reporting its first case in December in an outbreak that has gone ...

Masks go on world tour as Hong Kongers now send supplies abroad

Mar 20, 2020 (AFP)

The international financial hub was one of the first places hit as the virus spread from China, sparking panic buying, shortages and long queues for face masks....

California goes on virus lockdown as Italy death toll overtakes China

Mar 20, 2020 (AFP)

The United States was fast-tracking antimalarial drugs for use as a virus treatment, President Donald Trump said, as he lashed out at China for not informing th...

Italy virus deaths hit record as Trump goes on war footing

Mar 19, 2020 (AFP)

With the number of global coronavirus infections shooting past 200,000, governments announced new containment measures and the US Congress approved a $100 billi...

China reports zero new domestic virus cases for first time

Mar 19, 2020 (AFP)

The stark reversal comes as nations across the world have shut down in a desperate effort to contain the pandemic, with more people now infected and having died...

China reports no new domestic virus cases for first time, but 34 imported

Mar 19, 2020 (AFP)

The lack of domestic infections marks a major milestone in China's containment efforts, but the rise in imported cases threatens to unravel its progress. There ...

Emissions drops seen as NYC, global traffic levels dive amid COVID-19 fears

Mar 19, 2020 (UPI)

Researchers say cutbacks in movement, including automobile traffic, in countries to counter the spread COVID-19 around the world has reduced global gas emission...

Virus-hit Wuhan waits for barriers to come down

Mar 19, 2020 (AFP)

The city of 11 million, where the virus first erupted, became a ghost town after authorities prevented people from leaving on January 23. With thousands of pati...

As world cowers, China glimpses coronavirus aftermath

Mar 18, 2020 (AFP)

As the rest of the world runs for cover, China -- where the virus first emerged -- is moving, guardedly, in the opposite direction as domestic infections fall t...

China reports just one new domestic virus infection

Mar 18, 2020 (AFP)

For the second consecutive day there was only one more fresh infection in Wuhan, the central city where the virus first emerged late last year, the National Hea...

The COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic has a natural origin, scientists say

Mar 18, 2020 (SPX)

The analysis of public genome sequence data from SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses found no evidence that the virus was made in a laboratory or otherwise engineere...

Fujifilm shares soar after China backs drug to treat virus

Mar 18, 2020 (AFP)

Fujifilm Holdings stock started the day untraded because of a glut of buy orders, before soaring 15.4 percent to 5,238 yen, the highest level allowed during tra...

Global virus infections top 200,000 as nations tighten clampdowns

Mar 18, 2020 (AFP)

Worldwide fatalities topped 8,000 and more deaths have now been recorded in Europe, the new virus epicentre, than in Asia since the outbreak first emerged in Ch...