China faces Covid-like scare again: All you should know about HMPV & other viruses overwhelming hospitals and crematoriumsHuman Metapneumovirus: China is coping with an outbreak of human metapneumovirus (HMPV), along with other viruses such as Influenza A, Myco...
04 Jan, 2025, 12.41 AM IST
China facing new Covid-like pandemic? Here's everything we know about it so farChina Virus Outbreak News: There is no confirmation from Chinese health officials or the WHO regarding any such epidemic or state of emerge...
03 Jan, 2025, 07.58 PM IST
WHO chief asks China to share requested data to probe origins of Covid-19"We continue to call on China to share the data and conduct the studies that we have requested, to better understand the origins of this vi...
15 Dec, 2022, 09.23 AM IST
China’s wildlife is a pandemic ‘waiting to happen,’ study findsAlthough the authors in China, the U.S., Belgium and Australia didn’t find anything resembling SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for ...
13 Nov, 2021, 09.23 AM IST
COVID-19 either emerged naturally or it was laboratory accident, says US intelligence communityWhile two elements of the intelligence community lean toward the former scenario and one leans more toward the latter - each with low or mo...
27 May, 2021, 10.57 PM IST
WHO's Wuhan probe ends, US-China bickering over COVID continuesHours after the WHO team revealed preliminary findings at a Wuhan news conference on Tuesday, Washington said it wants to scrutinize data u...
10 Feb, 2021, 06.03 PM IST
How experts will hunt for COVID origins in ChinaThe visit has been shrouded in secrecy: The WHO tweeted Thursday a few details of what they will do, but it's unknown how much access China...
29 Jan, 2021, 09.44 AM IST
How experts plan to hunt for COVID origins in ChinaThe visit has been shrouded in secrecy: Details of their itinerary have not been released, and it's unknown how much access China will give...
28 Jan, 2021, 07.23 PM IST
China sees spike in COVID-19 cases ahead of WHO team visit to probe coronavirus originsThe number of coronavirus cases in China climbed to 115 on Tuesday, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Wednesday, adding that 107...
13 Jan, 2021, 01.14 PM IST
China questions coronavirus origin to Wuhan ahead of WHO probeVarious outlets of the state-run Chinese media have been carrying reports in recent days stating that a number of imported food products fr...
27 Nov, 2020, 10.08 PM IST
China delayed releasing coronavirus info, frustrating WHOThroughout January, the World Health Organization publicly praised China for what it called a speedy response to the new coronavirus and th...
02 Jun, 2020, 12.00 PM IST
China's rearguard actions to arrest COVID-19 spread offer lessons for India: Health expertsIndia's nationwide lockdown is broadly compared to that of China's sledgehammer clampdown of over 56 million residents of cental Hubei prov...
28 Mar, 2020, 01.03 PM IST
Coronavirus: Death toll crosses 3,000 in China, cases surpass 100,000 globallyThe virus that first emerged in China in December last year has spread to 97 countries and has infected 102,180 people, including 80,651 in...
07 Mar, 2020, 11.21 AM IST
UK calls coronavirus "serious" health threat; will detain peopleThe U.K. Department of Health and Social Care said people with the virus can now be forcibly quarantined and will not be free to leave. It ...
10 Feb, 2020, 04.59 PM IST
WHO chief says China virus evacuations not recommendedHis remarks during his meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi came as India, US and several other countries are finalising plans to ...
28 Jan, 2020, 09.56 PM IST
India Inc reacts to Coronavirus scare: Anand Mahindra says ‘life imitates art’, Kiran Shaw calls situation ‘scary’The death toll from the virus now stands at 80.
27 Jan, 2020, 05.56 PM IST
Emerging markets on edge as viral outbreak spreads from ChinaThe offshore yuan slid to the weakest level this year and neared 7 per dollar.
27 Jan, 2020, 04.07 PM IST