The World Health Organization (WHO) warmly praised China on Saturday for its response to the deadly coronavirus outbreak, saying it has “bought the world time” and other nations should watch and learn before making the most of it. It is the second time in a matter of days the U.N. body has publicly backed the Communist regime.
Patient “deteriorated rapidly” after several days in a critical condition. Six people with the virus remain in hospital in France.
Many couples around China and other parts of Asia were forced on Friday to get creative with their Valentine’s Day after being separated by efforts to contain the ongoing outbreak of coronavirus.
Singapore’s latest gambit to defeat the Wuhan coronavirus is “Bye Bye Virus,” a so-bad-it’s-irresistible rap song and dance video intended to remind people to wash their hands.
China could shut down the U.S. healthcare system within months with its “global chokehold” on medical manufacturing, said Rosemary Gibson.
There are no confirmed coronavirus cases in San Francisco but Facebook just canceled a big event anyway.
The first mass quarantine outside of China for the Wuhan coronavirus was reported in Vietnam on Thursday, with over 10,000 people living in farming communities near Hanoi locked down for 20 days after six virus infections were discovered.
The coronavirus outbreak has exposed the United States’ dangerous dependence on China for pharmaceutical and medical supplies, including an estimated 97 percent of all antibiotics and 80 percent of the active pharmaceutical ingredients needed to produce drugs in the United States.
A 59-year-old man in Chongqing, China is facing criminal charges for threatening to kill himself with firecrackers and gasoline because his birthday party was canceled by officials worried about the coronavirus epidemic.
Chinese state media on Wednesday demanded foreign carriers resume air travel even though the coronavirus epidemic is still raging.
China’s southern port city of Guangzhou banned dining in restaurants, local media reported Wednesday, as a measure to prevent the novel coronavirus epidemic in the country from becoming worse.
The impact of the coronavirus on China’s economy is likely to be large. Economists expect only a small drag on the U.S. economy.
The Communist Party of China appointed Ying Yong, the mayor of Shanghai, the new head of the Party in Hubei province on Thursday, as well as replacing the Party leader in Hubei’s capital, Wuhan, the epicenter of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
Five medical workers in China’s Yunnan province were detained last week for sharing videos about the Wuhan coronavirus on social media, a move that reminded angry Chinese citizens of how the late whistleblower Dr. Li Wenliang was persecuted for telling the truth about the epidemic in its early days.
China is keeping an 88-year-old retired military surgeon who exposed the severity of the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) under house arrest according to information the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights & Democracy (ICHRD).
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – The European Union warned Thursday that the spread of the viral outbreak in China is a risk for the economy but that its full impact will depend on how long it lasts and how far it spreads.
Wealthy travelers and major corporate clients are rejecting commercial airline travel and looking to private jets as a way to isolate themselves from the deadly coronavirus outbreak.
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party in Zimbabwe pushed for a total ban on Chinese travelers on Wednesday in hopes of keeping the Wuhan coronavirus from spreading to Africa.
The Pentagon has identified 11 military bases as potential quarantine centers for Americans suffering from the coronavirus, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced on Tuesday.
Communist Party officials said on Tuesday they found local officials in Wuhan had responded with severe negligence to initial reports of infections of coronavirus and exacerbated the emergency.
Hong Kong health officials on Tuesday evacuated residents from a high-rise apartment building called Hong Mei House because at least five of the city’s 42 confirmed cases of the Wuhan coronavirus have been linked to the building.
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Tuesday that the newly discovered coronavirus ravaging China, or any viral outbreak, can have “more powerful consequences than any terrorist action” and encouraged global governments to “do whatever it can to stop it.”
Shenzhen and Guangzhou, two of China’s largest cities, have been granted the authority to “requisition” personal property in order to halt the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.
Chinese Communist Party officials reportedly transferred a deaf political prisoner into coronavirus quarantine, the Epoch Times revealed on Wednesday, to hide signs of torture and keep him from seeing family.
Formula One motor racing will reschedule this year’s Chinese Grand Prix racing event to a later date due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Liberty Media Corp.-owned firm said Wednesday in a social media post.
Nokia on Wednesday became the latest company to drop out of one of the world’s biggest tech fairs over Coronavirus worries.
A British man who was extradited from Thailand, has collapsed in a UK prison and is feared to have contracted the deadly coronavirus.
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China conducted naval and air drills near Taiwan on Monday in an intimidation operation against Taiwanese “secessionists.” The bullying came after Taiwan outspokenly criticized China’s handling of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak and pressed for participation in the World Health Organization (WHO) over Chinese objections.
The Communist Party dismissed the director of Hubei province’s health commission and the Party leader in charge of it on Tuesday, the deadliest day so far since the coronavirus outbreak in that region began.
China’s state media continued hectoring the Western world about “overreacting” to the Wuhan coronavirus with a Global Times editorial on Tuesday that accused the United States of fabricating virus horror stories to “tarnish the image of China.”
