After 11 weeks of lockdown, the first train departed Wednesday morning from a re-opened Wuhan, the origin point for the coronavirus pandemic, as residents once again were allowed to travel in and out of the sprawling central Chinese city.
China said on Monday that the novel coronavirus was first detected in Wuhan in "late December 2019" where the infection was listed as "pneumonia of unknown cause", but skirted the key question about its origin in an official timeline of coronavirus detection and control published by Beijing for the first time, amid international criticism of cover-up.
As soon as, the Chinese government lifted the travel ban and other restrictions that were brought to contain coronavirus spread, people in mainland China were seen flocking to Huangshan, famously known as Yellow Mountain, located in Anhui province.
China will launch the first two communications satellites for its space-based Internet-of-Things project this month with one of them named after its birthplace Wuhan, the epicentre of coronavirus, officials said on Friday.
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.
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".
A leading Taiwanese think tank has alleged that China could be hiding its new coronavirus cases by forcing Uyghurs from camps in Xinjiang to work in factories across the country. Further, it is alleged that cluster infections are still prevalent in major Chinese cities
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.
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.
In what can be seen as a ray of hope for China as for the first time in three months, no domestic COVID 19 positive case has been reported in the country even from Wuhan which is the epicentre of the spread for the deadly virus.
A drug used in Japan used to treat new strains of influenza has been found to be effective in treating coronavirus patients
Coronavirus can stay in a patient's respiratory system who has been infected by the deadly disease, for more than 30 days (5 weeks), according to a new study.
China has reported 22 new coronavirus deaths, taking the death toll to 3,158, health officials said on Wednesday, as Chinese President Xi Jinping made his first visit to the worst-hit Wuhan city and lauded the authorities and medical staff for "turning the tide" against the deadly epidemic
President Xi Jinping on Tuesday made his first visit to the central Chinese city hit hardest by the new virus epidemic since the first cases of a then-unidentified respiratory illness emerged in December.
So far, 62,278 people have been recovered from the new coronavirus and in China, 58,600 people fought with the disease. However, in a few recovery cases, the coronavirus infection reappeared.
Telangana Health Minister Eatela Rajender reacted on state government's actions on the dreadful coronavirus positive case emerging in the state.
Health officials in Washington state, where a particularly troubling cluster of cases surfaced at a nursing home outside Seattle, said four more people had died from the coronavirus, bringing the number of deaths in the U.S. to six, all in Washington. New cases were also reported in New Hampshire and New York.
Authorities in US have reported second death due to Coronavirus in the country on Sunday night. A 70-year-old man who was suffering from the deadly virus was admitted to a nursing facility in Washington.
A 27-year-old woman, who returned from Italy, has been quarantined in a hospital in Indore city, Madhya Pradesh and being monitored for suspected exposure to Coronavirus. In the past few days, cases of people being infected from the deadly virus in Italy have witnessed a sudden rise.
The number of coronavirus infections in South Korea has increased to a whopping 3,536, the highest number outside mainland China where the virus originated, with a total of 17 fatalities, health authorities said here on Sunday.
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