April 2018 video from Wuhan lab fuels suspicion about coronavirus’ origin
News | May 02, 2020 23:17 ISTApril 2018 video from Wuhan lab fuels suspicion about coronavirus’ origin
April 2018 video from Wuhan lab fuels suspicion about coronavirus’ origin
A few gutsy Indians who stayed put in Wuhan are back at work after a strict 76-day lockdown, but are still worried about the possibility of a second wave of attack by the vicious coronavirus, going by the growing number of asymptomatic cases in the country.
Final year of primary and secondary school students in China returned to their classrooms on Monday after a long closure, which began with the Lunar New Year holiday and was later extended as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Agra in Uttar Pradesh has reported 10 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours taking confirmed patients toll in the district to 381, District Magistrate Prabhu N Singh has informed.
The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province where the coronavirus pandemic originated last December, has dropped to zero, a health official said on Sunday.
China on Monday firmly rejected US President Donald Trump’s demand to allow an American team into Wuhan to investigate the origins of the novel coronavirus, saying it was also a "victim and not a culprit" of the COVID-19.
China's coronavirus death toll mounted to 4,632 on Friday as the country revised figures in its epicentre Wuhan with 1,290 additional fatalities amid international criticism of under-reporting of COVID-19 data.
China continued to grapple with imported cases of coronavirus after stamping out the disease from its epicentre Wuhan as it reported 89 infections on Monday and the rise in asymptomatic patients posed serious concern for authorities, health officials said on Tuesday.
Chinese scientists have started the second phase of a clinical trial of a vaccine for coronavirus at the country's epicentre Wuhan as the global race to develop a drug to curb the pandemic intensified.
After 11 weeks of lockdown, the first train departed Wednesday morning from a re-opened Wuhan, the origin point for the coronavirus pandemic, as residents once again were allowed to travel in and out of the sprawling central Chinese city.
China said on Monday that the novel coronavirus was first detected in Wuhan in "late December 2019" where the infection was listed as "pneumonia of unknown cause", but skirted the key question about its origin in an official timeline of coronavirus detection and control published by Beijing for the first time, amid international criticism of cover-up.
As soon as, the Chinese government lifted the travel ban and other restrictions that were brought to contain coronavirus spread, people in mainland China were seen flocking to Huangshan, famously known as Yellow Mountain, located in Anhui province.
China will launch the first two communications satellites for its space-based Internet-of-Things project this month with one of them named after its birthplace Wuhan, the epicentre of coronavirus, officials said on Friday.
Domestic passenger flights will resume operations in China's Hubei province, the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, except in the Wuhan Tianhe International Airport, according to the country's civil aviation regulator.
Ji Rong, spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in India, said the international community should focus on China's "swift response" to the pandemic rather than "stereotyping the Chinese people".
A leading Taiwanese think tank has alleged that China could be hiding its new coronavirus cases by forcing Uyghurs from camps in Xinjiang to work in factories across the country. Further, it is alleged that cluster infections are still prevalent in major Chinese cities
Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus pandemic, on Wednesday resumed bus services within the city for the first time since the nine-week lockdown even as 47 new imported cases were reported from the country, threatening the second wave of infections.
China has vindicated a doctor who first warned about the coronavirus outbreak but was reprimanded by the Chinese authorities and later died of the disease. This has come as a startling admission of error by the ruling Communist Party that generally bodes no challenges to its authority.
In what can be seen as a ray of hope for China as for the first time in three months, no domestic COVID 19 positive case has been reported in the country even from Wuhan which is the epicentre of the spread for the deadly virus.
A drug used in Japan used to treat new strains of influenza has been found to be effective in treating coronavirus patients
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