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Footage has emerged appearing to show a man being forcibly removed from the Guangzhou metro by security staff for not wearing a face mask, after the South China province implemented a mandatory order to wear them amid the coronavirus crisis. Chine…
FCO urgently exploring options for British nationals to leave Hubei province, says No 10Latest news on the coronavirus – live updatesThe government is finalising plans to evacuate UK nationals from the Chinese province at the centre of the coronavirus …
Stuck inside for more than a week, Wuhan residents have turned to lion dances, indoor quoits and … other activitiesWhether locked down in quarantined cities in the outbreak zone of Hubei or isolating themselves at home across the country to lessen th…
UK embassy in Beijing says it is working on option for British nationals to leave ChinaCoronavirus latest – live updatesBritain’s embassy in Beijing has said it is “working to make available an option” for British nationals to leave the Chinese provinc…
The once-sleepy Mahia peninsula is now the site of regular rocket launches but a plan to put US spy satellites into space is causing concernLife on the Mahia peninsula on New Zealand’s North Island used to be quiet: surfing beaches, historical monument…
Capital of Hubei province sits on the Yangtze river and is the birthplace of China’s steel industryThe city of Wuhan is one of China’s largest industrial hubs and a major crossroads. The capital of Hubei province has 11 million people and is under an u…
Residents in cities affected by coronavirus hoard supplies and isolate themselves at homeCoronavirus latest news – live Chinese authorities have imposed lockdown measures on five cities in an unprecedented effort to contain the outbreak of the deadly n…
Supermarket shelves empty and face masks sell out as residents retreat indoorsA sense of panic has spread in Wuhan as the Chinese city of 11 million people was put on lockdown in an attempt to quarantine a deadly virus believed to have originated there…
Government unveils new countermeasures as country prepares for lunar new year and death toll doubles to 17Have you encountered any precautionary measures?WHO steps back from declaring public health emergencyChinese authorities have suspended all outbou…
Three of the new cases are severe, with experts worried about the disease’s spread ahead of lunar new yearChina reported 17 new cases of the mysterious Sars-like virus on Sunday, including three in a severe condition, heightening fears ahead of China’s…
Pneumonia-like illness in Wuhan is unclear in origin, with officials racing to contain outbreak before people travel for new yearChina has been battling what may be a new strain of pneumonia after 59 people contracted a mysterious respiratory illness i…
Fears of new epidemic after people taken to hospital in Wuhan with viral pneumoniaA mysterious respiratory illness that has infected dozens of people in a central Chinese city is not Sars, local authorities have said.The 2002-03 epidemic of severe acut…
Space programme seeks to bounce back after 2019 project ended with a crash landing on the lunar surfaceIndia plans to make a fresh attempt at an unmanned mission on the moon this year, the head of the country’s space programme has said, after a 2019 bi…
He Jiankui was guilty of illegal practices in trying to alter the genetic makeup of twin girlsA Chinese court has sentenced He Jiankui, the scientist who sparked global controversy last year when he claimed to have created the world’s first “gene-edite…
Rising temperatures linked to outbreaks of dengue fever high in the Kathmandu Valley, experts say•Global heating behind record number of cases of the diseaseLilawati Awasthi is used to the risks that come from living in a remote mountainous district in…