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The WHO has praised country’s response, but heavy-handed approach could make things worseWhen the World Health Organization declared the 2019nCoV coronavirus outbreak a global health emergency, it effusively praised China’s response to the outbreak. Th…
Australia and other countries follow US in imposing near-total travel ban as foreign companies scale back activityThe growing coronavirus epidemic is isolating China, as other countries, trying to ward off infection or contain their own smaller outbrea…
Chinese people resident in Britain report strained friendships and a shift in attitudesDr Zhou* had just arrived at Gatwick airport last week when a British couple physically recoiled as she entered a lift. “The woman looked at me, quickly turned to he…
Coronavirus latest updates: Australia bans foreign arrivals from China as deaths hit 259 – live news
Death toll rises, with 11,000 confirmed cases of infection in China, as some airlines stop flights in to Beijing and Shanghai. Follow the latest developmentsUS bars foreign nationals who have recently travelled to China‘The city is suffocating’: diary …
What are the symptoms caused by the virus from Wuhan in China, how is it transmitted from one person to another, and at what point should you see a doctor?Coronavirus: how to protect yourself from infectionCoronavirus – latest updatesIt is a novel coro…
Authoritarian bureaucracy has allowed dramatic response but also let virus festerCoronavirus outbreak – latest updatesWhen Wuhan’s mayor took to live national television to discuss the rapidly escalating outbreak of coronavirus in his city, he came pri…
‘These days, many have died,’ says bystander as image shows emergency workers in protective suits and masks taking body awayIt is an image that captures the chilling reality of the coronavirus outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan: a grey-haired man we…
What are the symptoms caused by the virus from Wuhan in China, how is it transmitted from one person to another, and at what point should you see a doctor?Coronavirus: how to protect yourself from infectionIt is a novel coronavirus – that is to say, a …
WHO says whole world must be on alert for Wuhan virus as UK citizens in Hubei told they will be flown home on FridayCoronavirus: Britons stuck in Wuhan to be flown home on Friday6,000 passengers stuck on cruise ship in Italy over coronavirus fearsWhole…
What are the symptoms caused by the virus from Wuhan in China, how is it transmitted from one person to another, and at what point should you see a doctor?Coronavirus: how to protect yourself from infection‘Our worst nightmare’: UK family to be split u…
People returning from China could be placed at a military base, says health departmentCoronavirus: BA suspends China flights – live updatesBritons returning from coronavirus-hit Wuhan will be placed in quarantine for 14 days.Officials are considering t…
Sindy Siddle, who has a Chinese passport, told she cannot leave with her husband and childA British family trapped in the centre of the coronavirus outbreak are facing their “worst nightmare” after being told wife and mother Sindy Siddle will not be al…
US updates travel warning to highest level as mayor of Wuhan admits authorities were too slow in releasing information. This blog is closedFollow our new China coronavirus live blog: evacuation begins of US and Japanese citizens in Wuhan – latest updat…
What are the symptoms, how is it transmitted from one person to another, and how is the virus from Wuhan in China related to Sars?Coronavirus: how to protect yourself from infectionGermany confirms first human transmission in EuropeCoronavirus latest -…
Man infected by colleague who appeared not to have symptoms when virus was transmittedLatest Coronavirus news: live updatesThe first human-to-human transmission of the Wuhan coronavirus in Europe has been reported in Germany, where a man was infected b…