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People in Beijing and Shanghai are going outside for the first time in months as warmer weather coincides with a gradual easing of fears across China about the coronavirus. It comes days after China reported no new domestic transmis…
The US president has sought to deflect criticism of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic by attacking China and the media over their coverage of it. Speaking at his daily taskforce briefing, Trump accused Beijing of suppressing early information ab…
A large crowd of monkeys has been filmed brawling over a pot of yoghurt in a street in Thailand. A fall in tourist numbers amid the Covid-19 outbreak has resulted in far fewer people offering them food. The video was filmed in Lopburi, a city north-eas…
The World Health Organization has described the outbreak of the new coronavirus as a pandemic.WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: ‘We are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming lev…
The last of a dozen makeshift hospitals in Wuhan, where the coronavirus outbreak began, officially closed on Tuesday in a sign that authorities’ efforts to curb the virus are working.On Tuesday, China reported 19 new coronavirus infections, down from 4…
Police detained dozens of protesters on Sunday shortly after journalists witnessed them being attacked. The activists gathered in one of the squares of the capital, Bishkek, when masked men, some of whom wore traditional Kyrgyz white felt hats, attacke…
A hotel in south-eastern China that was being used as a quarantine centre for people arriving from coronavirus-hit regions has collapsed, trapping dozens, according to the local governmentCoronavirus quarantine hotel in China collapses, trapping dozens…
A top Chinese official has been heckled by residents as she inspected the work of a neighbourhood committee tasked with taking care of quarantined residents. Vice-premier Sun Chunlan toured a residential community in the Qingshan district of Wuhan on T…
A summary of the biggest developments in the global coronavirus outbreak Key developments in the global coronavirus outbreak on Friday include: Continue reading…
Lee Man-hee, the reclusive founder of the Shincheonji Church at the centre of South Korea’s coronavirus outbreak, has apologised over the virus’s spread. The church became the target of public anger after one of its members, known as Patient 31, tested…
A queue of hundreds of people wanting to buy face masks from a supermarket stretched round several streets in Daegu on Monday.Customers queued outside one of Daegu’s E-mart stores, which began to sell face masks at half price in the city, according to …
Hundreds of Filipino couples participated in a mass wedding wearing face masks because of coronavirus fears. As part of efforts to prevent the spread of the virus, officials in the city of Bacolod conducted health tests and provided the 220 couples wit…
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization, has expressed concerned over the ‘narrowing window of opportunity’ to tackle Covid-19, and has urged the international community not to squander it. With four new cases in Iran, concern…
A British couple who had been asking the UK government to
organise a repatriation flight for passengers stuck on a cruise ship in Japan will not be on the plane after testing
positive for coronavirus. David Abel said in a video on Facebook that …
On Monday, David Abel spoke in a video update on Facebook about the mental strain of being quarantined on a cruise ship in Japan amid the coronavirus crisis. ‘It’s all getting to us now – not just me, other passengers as well. It’s the not-knowing fact…