China began to ease its lockdown of Hubei province, home for over 56 million people, from March 25 by resuming local transport services followed by relaxation of travel for people tested negative for coronavirus.
The new domestically transmitted case was reported in Henan province on Saturday, the country's National Health Commission (NHC) said. The five new fatalities were all reported from the epicentre Hubei province, taking the death toll to 3,300. With 44 new imported cases, their number has gone up to 693
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.
By the end of Friday, 518 confirmed cases, including four deaths, had been reported in Hong Kong, 34 confirmed cases in the Macao SAR, and 267 in Taiwan including two deaths. The novel coronavirus, that first originated in Wuhan in December, has wreaked havoc across the globe, upending life and businesses.
Pangolins that were smuggled into China carry coronaviruses that are closely related to the one behind the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study which sheds more light on the origins of the deadly virus.
Pakistan on Friday opened its borders with its all-weather ally China for a day to accept Chinese medical supplies to fight the growing coronavirus outbreak in the country which has infected 1,235 people and claimed nine lives, officials said.
The Chinese health authority said on Friday that it received reports of 55 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on the Chinese mainland on Thursday, of which 54 were imported.
Doctors in the coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan plan to embark on a long-term study of COVID-19 impact on the male reproductive system to verify initial research, indicating that the pathogen could affect sex hormone levels in men.
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".
The overall confirmed cases on the mainland had reached 81,285 by the end of Wednesday, including 3,947 patients who were still being treated, 74,051 patients who had been discharged after recovery, and 3,287 people who died of the disease.
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.
In the times of COVID-19, any development about a virus, especially in China, gives people a scare. Nevertheless, 'Hantavirus' has already claimed a life in China's Shandong province while infecting another 32.
Amid all the grim news related to coronavirus pandemic across the globe, there's good news. The good news has come from China's Hubei province -- where the coronavirus outbreak began.
International passengers flying to Beijing will instead land at airports in 12 cities including Shanghai, Tianjin, Nanjing and Shenyang as their first points of entry, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said in a statement.
Coronavirus: The overall confirmed cases in China had reached 81,054 by the end of Saturday, including 3,261 people who died of the disease, 5,549 patients still being treated and 72,244 patients discharged after recovery.
China reported no domestically transmitted coronavirus cases for the third consecutive day even as seven more fatalities have been confirmed, taking the death toll in the country to 3255.
The United States on Friday blamed Russia, China, and Iran for the alleged "disinformation campaign" against it on the coronavirus and urged its citizens to be aware about this on social media.
Chinese ambassador to India Sun Weidong on Friday said that China will hold a video conference with more than 10 countries in the Eurasian and South Asia on prevention and control of Covid-19 today.
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.
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