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As the deadly coronavirus that causes Covid-19 continues to spread to more countries around the world, unsubstantiated rumours are amplifying fears about the disease and causing a wider round of panic buying of essential supplies. The latest rush is focused on toilet paper, and has been causing long queues and empty…
South Korea is running “drive-through” coronavirus testing centres in multiple cities, including Daegu, the epicentre of the country’s outbreak. Health officials said such facilities would lessen contact between patients.
The amount of medical waste being generated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan has almost doubled since January 2020, soon after the Covid-19 outbreak started in the area. The capital of Hubei province now collects about 100 tonnes of waste per day daily, according to the Wuhan’s Radioactive and Hazardous Solid Wa…
At least three Hong Kong restaurants have announced that they will not welcome mainland Chinese customers, or anyone speaking Mandarin, the official language of the Chinese mainland. The restaurant operators cited health concerns after Hong Kong's government fell short of fully shutting down borders between the city…
With more than 4,800 infection cases and at least 28 deaths, South Korea now has the second-largest number of Covid-19 cases in the world outside China where the disease first emerged. Authorities have deployed the military to contain the spread of the coronavirus and urged people to refrain from outdoor activities.…
A group of people started a “free hugs” campaign in New York to raise awareness about coronavirus-related discrimination faced by the Chinese diaspora in the United States. Many people warmly welcomed the campaign in an area near Times Square, where the group of about 10 people held up placards reading, “I’m a Chine…
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In February 2020, we revisited trending videos in China, including a desperate mother’s tearful plea of getting her daughter with leukaemia to a hospital outside Hubei, a Chinese model who strikes two poses every second and can model up to 485 sets of outfits a day and many more.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on February 28 raised the risk of a global spread of Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, to “very high”. This comes after a week that saw the contagion reach all the world’s continents but Antarctica.
As coronavirus cases surge worldwide, US President Donald Trump said his administration has done an “incredible job” preventing the spread of Covid-19 in the country. A US health official from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has meanwhile warned it is not a question of “if” but rather “when” Ame…
China’s most decorated swimmer, Sun Yang has received an 8-year ban for a drug-testing violation, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled on February 28, 2020.
China reported a further drop in new infections on February 28, 2020, as concern mounted about the Covid-19 epidemic expanding to a global pandemic. China's National Health Commission said there were 327 new cases, a reduction in the daily figure which was 433 one day earlier. South Korea reported 256 new coronaviru…
A nurse who has been working long hours in a coronavirus isolation ward of a hospital in Xinyang, China, got a brief chance to greet her one-year-old son, even getting a chance to “kiss” him through a glass window. It was the first time they had seen each other in 26 days.
There are now more new cases of the novel coronavirus being recorded outside China than inside the country, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on February 26, 2020.
The Covid-19 epidemic has taken a heavy toll on medical workers in China, especially those struggling to keep up with the number of patients infected with the deadly coronavirus that causes the disease. China’s government said on February 14, 2020, that 1,716 medical workers had been infected, and that six have died…
Engineers involved in China’s artificial intelligence industry who have been developing “smart” robots are trying to come up with ways to use the devices to help fight the Covid-19 epidemic. While some of the robots are blasting the deadly coronavirus that causes the disease, others are being deployed in hospitals, …
Two medical workers were seen performing a ‘Swan Lake’ routine, in a hospital in southeastern China’s Anhui province, to celebrate six more coronavirus patients getting discharged.
Taiwan reopened kindergartens and high schools on February 25, 2020, after an extended winter break amid fears about the coronavirus outbreak. The Taiwan government also released new instructions for school suspensions in the event of any confirmed cases of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. Hong Kong’s gove…
A day after he appeared sick and coughed at a news conference, Iran's deputy health minister Iraj Harirchi admitted on February 26, 2020 that he has tested positive for the new coronavirus the causes Covid-19.
A KFC outlet in Hong Kong has shut down after a staff member was confirmed with Covid-19 on February 25, 2020. The 55-year-old restaurant worker is the sister of another person who one day earlier was found to have the deadly coronavirus that causes the disease. Investigators say the sisters had visited the Fook Wai…
China reported 508 new coronavirus infections on February 25, 2020, with only nine of the cases being outside the central province of Hubei, the epicentre of the epidemic. Health officials said the latest figures indicate that infection control efforts may be slowing the spread around the country of the deadly virus…
South Korean K-pop superstars BTS appeared in an empty hall to live-stream a press conference promoting their new album amid widespread concern about the spread of the deadly coronavirus. South Korea has seen a spike in Covid-19, the illness caused by the virus, and has called for the public to avoid mass gatherings…
More than 220 coronavirus cases had been confirmed in Italy as of February 24, 2020. Most of the seven elderly people who died from Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, had pre-existing health conditions. The figures showed that Italy had the highest number of coronavirus cases outside Asia. The Italian govern…
Health officials have confirmed that 59 of the 538 Filipinos on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship in quarantine in Japan have tested positive for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 disease.
British actor Nigel Dixon is trying to calm frayed nerves in the central Chinese city of Wuhan with his online social media miniseries Mr Pea. The 53-year-old, who does an impersonation of British sitcom character Mr Bean, travelled to the region at the epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic in early January. He refu…
A Chinese research team has suggested that the deadly new coronavirus may not have originated from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in the central city of Wuhan that was the epicentre of the Covid-19 outbreak. The research team reportedly analysed 93 samples of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SAR…
Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province and the epicentre of the novel coronavirus marked a month under lockdown on February 23, 2020. Strict measures were imposed to limit travel in an effort to contain the virus, which, so far, has infected nearly 79,000 people globally and killed more than 2,400. Most of the…
South Korea's president announced the country is on its 'highest alert' after a dramatic spike in coronavirus infections on February 23, 2020. The Korea Centres for Disease and Control and Prevention reported 169 new confirmed coronavirus cases and three new deaths. Nearly two-thirds of the new patients are linked t…
Hong Kong police confirmed the first case of coronavirus within the force on February 20. Four colleagues who attended a banquet with the infected police officer have developed symptoms. More than 50 others at the gathering are now under quarantine. The police infection scare has prompted health authorities to warn …
China reported a sharp rise in new infections and 118 more deaths on February 21, 2020, as it continues to fight the coronavirus epidemic. One day earlier, China reported its lowest increase in new infections in weeks at 394. Chinese health experts say the fluctuation in numbers may suggest the crisis has yet to rea…
Economic activities in China have been greatly affected by the coronavirus epidemic, with many restaurants, shops, offices and factories closed since late January 2020. But supermarkets around the country are battling to stay open and operate as normally as possible, and often using extra precautions to avoid the sp…
China reportedly saw a sharp fall in new infections of the deadly coronavirus as the country’s health authority said it had confirmed 394 new cases and 114 additional deaths as of February 19, 2020. The latest figures raised the total number of deaths on the mainland to 2,118 and confirmed cases to 74,576. The stati…
Hong Kong’s flagship airline Cathay Pacific Airways is scrambling to ride out a financial storm caused by the coronavirus outbreak, coming right on the heels of months of anti-government protests in its home city as well as the US-China trade war. As the region tries to prevent the spread of the virus that causes th…
A flight carrying 106 of the 364 Hongkongers who have been under a coronavirus quarantine on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan for more than two weeks touched down in Hong Kong on the morning of February 20, 2020. The group was immediately taken to a government facility where they must now undergo anot…
Wuhan, the Chinese city at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, is transforming more public buildings into temporary medical facilities for patients showing mild symptoms of coronavirus infection. Ten temporary hospitals being set up across the city will be able to provide an additional 11,000 beds for use in …
A UV light bacteria-killing robot is being used at a hospital in Wuhan, the epicentre of the Covid-19 outbreak. It has been placed inside a CT scanner to prevent cross-infection while patients are tested for the coronavirus.
China’s National Health Committee reported 1,749 new confirmed infections of the novel coronavirus and additional 136 deaths on February 18, 2020, as the global total death toll from Covid-19 reached 2,010. Patients who have recovered from the disease are being asked to donate blood so that plasma can be extracted t…
Normally bustling Chinatowns around the world from London to Melbourne have fallen silent because of fears about the deadly novel coronavirus. Businesses in the districts are struggling to survive as customers associate them with the Covid-19 disease that originated on the Chinese mainland.
The number of new coronavirus cases in China appears to have declined, according to a study released by the nation’s health authorities.
A woman was captured wearing a giraffe costume when she visited a hospital in southwestern China’s Sichuan province. She said her masks have expired, so she wore a costume for protection.
A Russian court on February 17, 2020, ordered a 32-year-old woman to return to a hospital in St Petersburg after she escaped from a coronavirus quarantine at the facility. Alla Ilyina said she was upset with arrangements and conditions in the isolation room, before she short-circuited an electronic lock and fled on …
A group of 18 mothers are doing regular nighttime patrols through the streets and alleyways of the municipality of Pateros in the Philippine capital Manila. The volunteers are trying to maintain peace in their community amid the “war on drugs” started by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Since the crackdown star…
Over the weekend on February 15-16, hundreds of people protested across several districts in Hong Kong to oppose the government’s decision to use public clinics near residential areas as treatment centres for Covid-19 patients. At least 20 people were arrested in an officially approved protest in Tin Shui Wai. As of…
A couple, both of whom are frontline medical workers, embraced in a hug upon seeing each other for the first time in five days. They work in a hospital in eastern China’s Zhejiang province.
China’s health authority said it received reports of 142 deaths and 2,009 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections on February 16, 2020. Hubei, the epicentre of the outbreak, reported 1,843 new confirmed cases and 139 deaths.
More than a thousand health care workers have been infected with Covid-19, many of whom contracted the coronavirus that causes the disease in the early weeks of the outbreak when there was a shortage of protective equipment. Among them, six have died of the disease.
A stewardess on a flight going to central China’s Hubei province held back tears, as she thanked a group of medical workers on board. They were going to Hubei to support her hometown’s fight against the deadly coronavirus that has swept the country.
From her home in Pakistan, Farah Kanwal anxiously awaits the return of her daughter who is stuck in Jingzhou city in China’s central province of Hubei, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak. Her daughter, Maham Ali Khan, is a medical student who was supposed to return to Pakistan after collecting her degree, a t…
The death of coronavirus whistle-blower Dr Li Wenliang sparked public mourning and anger, and more trending videos from China this week.
A man in eastern China’s Zhejiang province held a ‘concert’ from his apartment’s balcony, in a bid to cheer up neighbours who have been staying indoors amid the coronavirus outbreak that has swept the country. But the local authority stopped him from performing, to avoid the spread of virus.
