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China is supplying millions of masks and other desperately-needed items to struggling governments around the world. The Chinese Communist Party has flown gloves and protective clothing to Liberia, sent 100,000 test kits to the…

The Chinese epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic emerged from a 76-day lockdown on Friday after drastic measures to contain the disease worked. On Tuesday, China announced a lockdown of more than 50 million people in Hubei province…

The Chinese epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic emerged from a 76-day lockdown on Friday after drastic measures to contain the disease worked. On Tuesday, China announced a lockdown of more than 50 million people in Hubei province…

BEIJING – The number of novel coronavirus patients in Wuhan, the epicenter of China’s virus outbreak, was manipulated in time for President Xi Jinping’s earlier this month, a local doctor has told Kyodo News.A number of symptomatic…

COVID-19 is no longer the “Wuhan Virus”. The city which saw the first outbreak in the global pandemic today reported no new cases of infection. Is this too good to be true?China’s health ministry says the COVID-19 epicentre province of…

BEIJING – An influential former Chinese property executive who called President Xi Jinping a “clown” over a speech he made last month about the government’s efforts to battle the coronavirus has gone missing, three of his friends…

BEIJING – As the rest of the world grapples with a burgeoning outbreak of COVID-19, China’s ruling Communist Party has deployed its propaganda playbook to portray its leader as firmly in charge, leading an army of health workers in…

BEIJING – Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday made his first visit to Wuhan, the central Chinese city that has been hit hardest by the new virus epidemic.State media reported Xi arrived in the morning in Wuhan, which is…

The coronavirus outbreak has prompted Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to request nationwide school closures, call for large events to be canceled or postponed and seek to pass legislation that would enable the government to declare a…

Chinese President Xi Jinping has postponed his state visit to Japan in April, the Japanese government said Thursday, ending weeks of speculation over whether the trip would go ahead amid efforts to contain the coronavirus…

Tokyo and Beijing have agreed to delay Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Japan as the two countries battle the outbreak of the coronavirus, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said on Monday.The visit had been…

Despite speculation that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s upcoming state visit to Japan may be postponed due to the deadly coronavirus outbreak, Japan and China are confident that the plan is still intact.Chinese foreign policy chief…

The coronavirus has now been detected on every continent on Earth except Antarctica, leading to new fears in China about how to keep the virus out. With Brazil confirming Latin America’s first case, the potentially deadly disease has now…

The coronavirus has now been detected on every continent on Earth except Antarctica, leading to new fears in China about how to keep the virus out. With Brazil confirming Latin America’s first case of the virus, the potentially deadly…

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump faces a critical challenge in grappling with the new coronavirus outbreak: Asking Americans to believe him after he and top advisers have contradicted federal scientists in playing down the…

BEIJING – Factories that make the world’s smartphones, toys and other goods are struggling to reopen after a virus outbreak idled China’s economy. But even with the ruling Communist Party promising help, companies and economists…

LONDON – Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has perhaps the most thankless job in global public health. As director-general of the World Health Organization, the former Ethiopian health minister is racing against time to prevent a…

At an emergency meeting in Beijing held last Friday, Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke about the need to contain the coronavirus and set up a system to prevent similar epidemics in the future.A national system to control biosecurity risks…

The World Health Organization warned Friday that the window to stem the deadly coronavirus outbreak was shrinking, amid concern over a surge in cases with no clear link to China.WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has for weeks insisted…

China is calling out its military to reinforce exhausted health workers and enforce strict new quarantine measures imposed upon the epicentre of the Covid-19 virus outbreak as a seventh medical worker dies from the disease.On Tuesday,…