Wuhan tests 10 million people, finds few infectionsIt identified just 300 positive cases, all of whom had no symptoms. The city found no infections among 1,174 close contacts of the people w...
03 Jun, 2020, 03.21 PM IST
Wuhan to test entire population after new virus cluster: State mediaOfficials had been ordered to submit by noon on Tuesday plans to administer nucleic acid tests on all residents in the city of 11 million p...
12 May, 2020, 03.23 PM IST
Amid attack from Trump, WHO praises China for handling coronavirus pandemicNoting that there are zero COVID-19 cases in Wuhan, Maria van Kerkhove, the technical lead for the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme at a ...
02 May, 2020, 12.09 PM IST
China's Wuhan city discharges last COVID-19 patient from hospitalThe last COVID-19 patient in Wuhan has been discharged and the hospitals in the epicentre of the global coronavirus pandemic in the central...
27 Apr, 2020, 11.48 AM IST
COVID-19: China declares Wuhan low-risk areaChina has classified the coronavirus epicentre Wuhan as a low-risk area, days after it revised the city's death toll by 50 per cent, even a...
19 Apr, 2020, 10.54 AM IST
Looking into reports that coronavirus 'escaped' from China's Wuhan lab: Donald TrumpThe US has been conducting a full-scale investigation into whether the deadly virus "escaped" from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Fox New...
18 Apr, 2020, 09.51 AM IST
COVID-19: China shuts down largest makeshift hospital in Wuhan, last batch of medics leaveAs the number of coronavirus cases abates, China shutdown one of its largest makeshift hospitals built in February to treat the surging COV...
15 Apr, 2020, 12.03 PM IST
Wuhan's lessons in containing Covid-19: Wear masks, no home quarantine for patientsCiting the experience of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, for which he is the president, Wang told the local media that some medics i...
13 Apr, 2020, 04.22 PM IST
Coronavirus detected in Wuhan in late December: ChinaSince the coronavirus outbreak, the pandemic has killed 3,331 people in China with the number of infections rising to 81,740, the National ...
07 Apr, 2020, 04.39 PM IST
China reports 30 new coronavirus cases; nine districts in Wuhan classified as ‘low-risk'The overall confirmed cases in the mainland reached 81,669 on Saturday, including 1,376 patients undergoing treatment and 76,964 others dis...
05 Apr, 2020, 10.10 AM IST
After lifting lockdown, Wuhan residents asked to stay home amid fears of rebound of coronavirusChina on March 25 downgraded the risk level of the coronavirus in its epicentre Wuhan from high to medium and resumed bus services within t...
03 Apr, 2020, 03.43 PM IST
A Wuhan shrimp seller identified as coronavirus 'patient zero'Identified as Wei Guixian, she was selling shrimps at the Huanan Seafood Market when she developed a cold.
30 Mar, 2020, 12.25 PM IST
WHO team visits Wuhan city as China's Coronovirus death toll jumps to 2,442By the end of Saturday, a total of 2,442 people had died of the disease and 76,936 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection had been ...
23 Feb, 2020, 08.57 AM IST
China lab says conspiracy theories hurting efforts to curb virusThe institute has been accused of "artificially synthesising" the coronavirus in one of its laboratories, it said. It also referred to othe...
20 Feb, 2020, 01.38 PM IST
A mask factory in just six days! China shows once again why it's a manufacturing powerhouseEarlier, China managed to build a temporary hospital in Wuhan with 1,500 beds in just 10 days. It has also managed to make eight other temp...
17 Feb, 2020, 04.17 PM IST
20 cured coronavirus patients donate plasma to critically ill in ChinaAs many as 20 people who recovered from novel coronavirus in China have donated their plasma to the critically ill patients in the city of ...
17 Feb, 2020, 10.17 AM IST
China's Coronavirus afflictions claim 41 lives, nearly 1300 confirmed cases, 237 criticalThe virus has spread to Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Nepal, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam and the United States as of Thurs...
25 Jan, 2020, 08.35 AM IST