China shares virus genome data, officials suggest European strainChina, which had been under pressure to make the data public sooner rather than later as Covid-19 cases mount in the country's capital, sai...
19 Jun, 2020, 11.36 PM IST
China inspects food imports over virus fearsAuthorities have been testing hundreds of thousands of people for the contagion while neighbourhoods have been locked down and schools clos...
19 Jun, 2020, 11.33 PM IST
COVID-19: China reports 37 new cases; Beijing implements wartime measuresThe National Health Commission (NHC) said that 32 new confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported in the country on Thursday of which 28 were do...
19 Jun, 2020, 10.26 AM IST
Beijing coronavirus outbreak has been contained, says top China expertWhile schools have been closed and travel tightened, an across-theboard lockdown has not yet been enacted. Such a move would risk undoing s...
18 Jun, 2020, 11.05 PM IST
Norway says its salmon not source of Beijing virus outbreakNorwegian salmon came under scrutiny in China after a recently discovered cluster of new coronavirus cases was reportedly traced to the Xin...
17 Jun, 2020, 11.06 PM IST
What is China doing to stop Beijing's new coronavirus outbreak?Until the new outbreak, most of China's recent cases were nationals returning from abroad as COVID-19 spread globally, and the government h...
17 Jun, 2020, 04.06 PM IST
Beijing cancels hundreds of flights, trains as COVID-19 cases spikeTwo airports in Beijing have cancelled 1,255 domestic flights, nearly 70 per cent of the scheduled trips, the official media reported.Beiji...
17 Jun, 2020, 10.42 AM IST
Beijing Covid-19 cases reach 106, mass testing of nearly 90,000 people underwayThe Covid-19 cases in Beijing have jumped to 106, a senior city official said on Tuesday, warning that the situation is "extremely severe" ...
16 Jun, 2020, 12.40 PM IST
Virus-hit Beijing tightens outbound travel; Shanghai demands quarantineBeijing authorities imposed more restrictions to stop the spread of a fresh outbreak of coronavirus in the Chinese capital to other provinc...
16 Jun, 2020, 10.09 AM IST
Parts of Beijing locked down as virus outbreak gathers fresh paceThe outbreak came after China had largely brought coronavirus under control following its emergence in a central Chinese city late last yea...
16 Jun, 2020, 10.07 AM IST
Beijing puts fresh curbs to stop spread of coronavirus out of Chinese capitalBeijing marked more neighbourhoods as medium-risk areas late on Monday, taking the total to 22. Medium-risk areas are required to take stri...
16 Jun, 2020, 08.56 AM IST
WHO says 'hypothesis' about cause of China's latest virus outbreak needs further testingMike Ryan, head of the WHO's emergencies programme, said in a briefing that he would be "reticent" to say that packaging needs to be tested...
16 Jun, 2020, 08.26 AM IST
COVID-19: China begins mass testing in Beijing as 67 new cases appearIn a bid to stem the spread of the contagion, the authorities in Beijing have conducted the nucleic acid test on 29,386 people who had visi...
15 Jun, 2020, 10.30 AM IST
China's capital re-institutes virus measuresTen of the other cases were brought from outside the country and three were found in Hebei province just outside Beijing. The National Heal...
15 Jun, 2020, 09.11 AM IST
China, Korea, Egypt report rise in virus cases as curbs easeThe Xinfadi market was closed after 50 people tested positive for the virus in the Chinese capital's first confirmed cases in 50 days.
14 Jun, 2020, 11.11 PM IST
China reports 66 new COVID-19 cases after sudden spike in BeijingChina has reported 66 new coronavirus cases, the largest since the disease was controlled in its first epicentre Wuhan in April, prompting ...
14 Jun, 2020, 10.48 AM IST
Beijing shuts down several markets after six new COVID-19 cases reportedChina's National Health Commission, (NHC) said on Saturday that out of the 18 new coronavirus cases, 11 were confirmed cases reported in th...
13 Jun, 2020, 04.26 PM IST