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No Cases of Internal COVID-19 Transmission Registered in China for Second Day

No new cases of internal coronavirus transmissions have been registered in China for a second straight day, the National Health Commission said on Friday. A total of 39 cases of COVID-19 were added on Friday, all of them imported, according to the health authorities, and three more deaths were registered. ...

March 20, 2020

World

China’s Wuhan, Reports No New Cases For First Time Since Outbreak

The Chinese city of Wuhan has reported no new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for the first time since the outbreak, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission said on Thursday. “[As of 18 March 2020], there were 733 new discharged cases, 6 new deaths, and 0 new suspected cases”, the ...

March 19, 2020

World

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang

China Says “Indignant” over Trump’s “Chinese Virus” Tweet

China said Tuesday it was “strongly indignant” after a tweet from US President Donald Trump referred to the new coronavirus as the “Chinese virus”. Saying that Beijing was ‘indignant’ over the matter, its foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told the reporters at a press briefing that linking the virus to ...

March 17, 2020

World

China: Keeping Sanctions against Iran amid Coronavirus Fight ‘Would Be Antihuman’

China on Monday called for lifting sanctions imposed on Iran, saying that keeping such sanctions at a time the Islamic Republic is fighting coronavirus deadly outbreak ‘would be antihuman’. “China urges countries involved to immediately lift the relevant sanctions against Iran to avoid further damage to the Iranian economy and ...

March 16, 2020

World

Kazakh President Declares Nationwide Emergency Over COVID-19

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed a decree to introduce a nationwide state of emergency over the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic beginning on Monday, the presidential office said on Sunday. “In connection with the declaration by the World Health Organisation of the coronavirus disease, COVID-19, as a pandemic, in order to ...

March 15, 2020

World

China Reports 11 New Virus Cases, Majority ‘Imported’

China reported 11 new infections of the coronavirus on Saturday, and for the first time since the start of the epidemic the majority of them were imported cases from overseas. The National Health Commission said there were four more people infected in Hubei’s capital Wuhan,where the virus first emerged in ...

March 14, 2020

World

China Government Spokesman Says U.S. Army Might Have Bought Virus to China

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian wrote on his Twitter account on Thursday that the U.S. military might have brought the coronavirus to the Chinese city of Wuhan, which has been hardest hit by the outbreak. “When did patient zero begin in US? How many people are infected? What are ...

March 12, 2020

Urgent

China’s Xi Says Virus ‘Basically Curbed’ at Epicenter

Chinese President Xi Jinping declared Tuesday that the spread of the deadly coronavirus epidemic has been “basically curbed” at its epicenter in Hubei province and its capital Wuhan. Xi said “initial success has been made in stabilizing the situation and turning the tide in Hubei and Wuhan,” the official Xinhua ...

March 10, 2020

World

US Begins Military Pullout from Two Afghan Bases amid Political Crisis

American forces have started pulling out of two bases in Afghanistan, a US official said Tuesday, the day peace talks between Kabul and the Taliban were due to start despite widespread violence and a political crisis. The United States, and under the terms of a deal signed in Doha last ...

March 10, 2020

World

China Signals Progress in Virus Battle as Disney Partially Reopens

China closed several makeshift hospitals for coronavirus patients, some schools reopened and Disney resort staff went back to work Monday as normality slowly returns to the country after weeks battling the epidemic. New virus cases in China — which accounts for the vast majority of the more than 100,000 infections ...

March 9, 2020