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Top official sacked following new confirmed Covid-19 cases in China’s Wuhan
WUHAN: An official has been sacked in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province after the city recently reported six new confirmed Covid-19 (coronavirus) cases, local authorities said on Monday (May 11). Zhang Yuxin was removed from his posts for
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Trump faults China for coronavirus’ spread, says U.S. investigating
WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that China could have stopped the coronavirus before it swept the globe and said his administration was conducting “serious investigations” into what happened. “We’re doing very serious investigations … We are not
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From filmmaker to medicine courier: volunteers helped Wuhan’s virus fight
WUHAN, China: While most people in the Chinese city of Wuhan were hunkered down in their homes at the height of the country’s coronavirus outbreak, Lin Wenhua was out on the empty streets in his car, driving toward the next
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China reports smaller number of new daily coronavirus cases
SHANGHAI: China reported 45 new coronavirus cases in the mainland for March 28, down from 54 on the previous day, with all but one involving travelers from overseas, the country’s health authority said on Sunday. The number of so-called “imported”
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‘Is that it?’: Chinese report into death of doctor who raised coronavirus alarm underwhelms
SHANGHAI: A Chinese report into the coronavirus death of a young doctor reprimanded by police for “spreading rumours” when he tried to raise the alarm about the disease drew quick criticism online after it merely suggested the reprimand be withdrawn.
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China’s Wuhan reports no new infections for first time, imported cases surge
BEIJING: The central Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the country’s coronavirus outbreak, reported no new infections for the first time, while imported cases surged by a record, led by new infections in the capital of Beijing. The new
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Chinese diplomat: US military brought coronavirus to Wuhan (conspiracy theory)
Wuhan, amid war of words between the two countries over the rapid spread of the deadly virus across the world. China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday reported that US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield reportedly
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U.S. ‘China-bashers’ seek to gain from China’s coronavirus woes
SHANGHAI: An editorial in the official China Daily on Friday intensified a war of words with the United States, blasting “China-bashers” and saying they would “continue to fling dirt at China” despite what it called the country’s effective pandemic-control efforts.
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China’s coronavirus epicentre sees single-digit cases for first time
BEIJING/SHANGHAI: China had eight new coronavirus infections in Hubei province, the first time the epicentre of the epidemic recorded a daily tally in single-digits, as more businesses reopened with local authorities cautiously easing strict containment measures. The capital of Hubei,
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Nurse requests China govt for a boyfriend as a reward for fighting Coronavirus
A single nurse working in Wuhan, China, to fight the coronavirus outbreak wants the government to assign her a boyfriend once it’s all over. Tian Fangfang said she hopes ‘the country can assign me a boyfriend when the epidemic is
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