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Shanghai becomes new COVID-19 epicentre with record cases for 6th consecutive dayThe Chinese mainland reported 1,284 new locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases, including 322 in Shanghai, on Wednesday, China's National Healt...
One year on, Wuhan market at epicentre of virus outbreak remains barricaded and emptyAlmost a year since the outbreak began, COVID-19 has claimed more than 1.5 million lives, and the Wuhan wet market where it was initially d...
New York City reports zero COVID-19 deaths for first time since pandemic beganOn Sunday, preliminary health data from the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene showed that no one died from the coronavirus in New...
China reports first coronavirus case in Wuhan since April 3While China had officially designated all areas of the country as low-risk last Thursday, the new cases according to data published on Sund...
President Xi warns against complacency as China downgrades COVID-19 risk levels in all regionsChina has already reduced risk levels in Hubei province and its capital Wuhan -- the epicentres of the virus, while business and factories ...
China's coronavirus cases drop to oneChina, where the deadly coronavirus first emerged in December last, reported just one COVID-19 case, the National Health Commission (NHC) s...
Some countries are already bracing for a second wave of coronavirus infectionsAs travel restrictions are slowly eased in may parts of the world, countries fear travellers who might have picked up the virus elsewhere, ...
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...
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...
Coronavirus India case count rises to 137, Maharashtra is the new epicentreMeanwhile, the Mumbai civic body has decided to display awareness messages about coronavirus infection on around 1200 hoardings in the city...
First COVID-19 case can be traced back to November 17 in China's Hubei province: ReportThe first case of someone in China suffering from COVID-19 can be traced back to November 17, the report said quoting government data. A 55...
Hubei, China's coronavirus epicentre, sees single-digit cases for first timeChina confirmed only eight new coronavirus infections in Hubei province, the first time the epicentre of the epidemic recorded a daily tall...
China reports 125 new virus cases, lowest number in six weeksThe number of cases in China has been generally declining after significant quarantine efforts, although the 11 new infections reported on ...
China reports 35 more virus deaths, 573 new casesThe National Health Commission also reported 573 new infections, bringing the total number of cases in mainland China to 79,824.
Iraq confirms first novel coronavirus caseIraq had blocked travel to and from the Islamic republic days before announcing a seminary student in Najaf was the country's first confirm...
India's third coronavirus patient discharged from hospital in KeralaThe decision to discharge her from the hospital was taken by the Medical Board, which met and examined the results of the woman's samples t...
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...
Air India's 2nd flight lands in Delhi with 323 Indians, 7 Maldivians from coronavirus-hit WuhanAir India's jumbo B747 made two flights to Wuhan city - the ground zero of the coronavirus epidemic that has killed 304 people and infected...
Another flight to evacuate Indians from coronavirus-hit Wuhan to leave Delhi on Saturday: Air IndiaThe first flight - which evacuated 324 passengers from Wuhan - had a team of five doctors from Ram Manohar Lohia hospital, one paramedical ...
China virus death toll jumps to 106; confirmed cases climb to over 4,500The death toll from a coronavirus outbreak in China has soared to 106 while nearly 1,300 new cases have been confirmed, authorities said Tu...