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Stranded in Wuhan: foreigners raise call for help in virus epicentre
Jan 30, 2020 (AFP)
Hundreds were flown to safety this week to Tokyo, Singapore and California on government-chartered flights, but those from countries with less diplomatic clout ...
Project fear: Misinformation spreads China virus panic
Jan 30, 2020 (AFP)
Phoebe, a 40-year-old Hong Kong doctor, has been dismayed by some of the messages cropping up in her family Whatsapp group in recent days. "I've seen informatio...
New coronavirus study places incubation period at around 5 days
Jan 30, 2020 (AFP)
While admitting that the estimate is "imprecise," the Chinese team behind a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on Wednesday said thei...
China sees deadliest day yet as global virus fears mount
Jan 30, 2020 (AFP)
The World Health Organization, which initially downplayed the severity of a disease that has now killed 170 nationwide, warned all governments to be "on alert" ...
Virus fears spark mask queues and empty shelves in Hong Kong
Jan 30, 2020 (AFP)
As a city that lost nearly 300 people to the SARS virus in 2003, Hong Kongers are taking few chances over the latest disease outbreak that began in central Chin...
Australia to quarantine Wuhan evacuees on asylum-seeker island
Jan 29, 2020 (AFP)
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said "vulnerable" Australians -- including children and the elderly -- and short-term visitors to Wuhan and surrounding Hubei prov...
WHO calls world to action on China virus ahead of crisis talks
Jan 29, 2020 (AFP)
So far, the novel coronavirus has claimed 132 lives in China and infected more than 6,000 people in the country and elsewhere. New cases were reported in Finlan...
China confirms 5,974 virus cases, exceeding SARS; 25 new deaths
Jan 29, 2020 (AFP)
China's national health commission reported more than 1,400 confirmed new cases on Wednesday, as the death toll rose to 132. There were 5,327 confirmed cases in...
Japanese evacuated from Wuhan describe fear in virus epicentre
Jan 29, 2020 (AFP)
A total of 206 Japanese citizens landed at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Wednesday morning, with health professionals carrying out checks on board and at the airpor...
Japan, US evacuees leave Chinese virus epicentre; Plane lands in Tokyo
Jan 29, 2020 (AFP)
More than 50 million people have been locked down in and around Wuhan, the central industrial city where the outbreak first began, in a bid by authorities to st...
China battles virus spread with masks and disinfectant
Jan 29, 2020 (AFP)
People in Beijing and across China are donning masks, spraying antiseptic and staying off the streets in a battle to halt the spread of a viral outbreak that ha...
Foreigners flown out of China virus epicentre, death toll hits 132
Jan 29, 2020 (AFP)
The scale of the deepening crisis was emphasised with the new infection number on the Chinese mainland exceeding that of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (...
Airlines halt, reduce China flights
Jan 29, 2020 (AFP)
China has advised its citizens to postpone trips abroad and cancelled overseas group tours, while several countries have urged their citizens to avoid travel to...
Judging the gravity of the coronavirus outbreak
Jan 28, 2020 (AFP)
- The toll so far - As of Tuesday, more than 4,500 cases have been confirmed in China, its country of origin, of which 106 have been fatal. Several cases have b...
Australia 'first to grow' virus outside China; US racing to develop vaccine
Jan 28, 2020 (AFP)
The Doherty Institute in Melbourne announced Wednesday that it had grown the novel coronavirus in cell culture from a patient sample, the first time the virus h...
China delays schools' return over virus fears
Jan 28, 2020 (AFP)
The decision came as the death toll from the new coronavirus soared to 106 and the total number of cases surpassed 4,000 nationwide. Students are currently on h...
Hong Kong slashes border crossings with China over virus
Jan 28, 2020 (AFP)
With tour groups from the mainland suspended earlier, the new measures blocking individual travellers will dramatically reduce the number of Chinese able to vis...
Xi says China fighting 'demon' virus as nations prepare airlifts
Jan 28, 2020 (AFP)
Xi made his remarks during talks with the head of the World Health Organization in Beijing amid growing global concerns about a novel coronavirus that has infec...
WHO probing if virus can spread before symptoms; Confusion over global risk level
Jan 27, 2020 (AFP)
The virus, which can cause a pneumonia-like acute respiratory infection, has in a matter of weeks killed more than 80 people and infected some 2,740 in China, w...
Mongolia closes China border to cars, shuts schools over virus fears
Jan 27, 2020 (AFP)
The measures announced by the vast, landlocked country are the most drastic steps taken by any nation so far over concerns about coronaviras, that has rapidly s...
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