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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.
The world famous Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens is the latest sports event to be caught up in the city’s battle against the deadly coronavirus outbreak. The event originally scheduled to take place April 3-5, 2020, has been moved back to October 16-18. Many sporting events across Asia have been cancelled or po…
Use of face masks has soared amid the outbreak of Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus that emerged in central China in late 2019. While many people around the world are wearing masks to avoid catching or spreading the virus, health experts say it is equally important that users know how to properly…
Concern about the coronavirus and Covid-19, the name now being used for the illness it causes, has been slowly rising in Europe, where as of February 13 there were 45 confirmed infections.
Two Chinese nationals who were infected with coronavirus and hospitalised in Russia have fully recovered. Doctors said tests showed the two patients no longer carry the deadly virus that causes the disease now known as Covid-19. One patient was discharged from hospital on February 11, 2020, and the second was releas…
The central Chinese province of Hubei, where the coronavirus outbreak is said to have originated, has reported sharp spikes in numbers of newly confirmed cases and deaths from the illness. The figures released February 13, 2020, reported 14,840 new confirmed cases, a nearly 10-fold rise on February 12 from the previ…
Chinese communities overseas are increasingly facing racist abuse and discrimination amid the coronavirus outbreak. Some ethnic Chinese people living in the UK say they experienced growing hostility because of the deadly virus that originated in China.
The search for a vaccine for the newly named Covid-19 disease got started as soon as the scale of the outbreak became clear. Chinese and global institutions are investing huge amounts of time and money to find a viable vaccine that is safe and has no side effects. A major first step in the process is animal testing,…
Medical workers in central China are racing against time to treat coronavirus patients in hospitals at the epicentre of the outbreak in Wuhan, the capital of the central province of Hubei. Some voluntarily joined medical teams, while many others were mobilised by authorities to work in Wuhan hospitals as confirmed c…
As coronavirus continues to spread, medical staff working in Wuhan decided to cut their hair short to combat the epidemic.
As Hong Kong battles the spread of a novel coronavirus originating in mainland China, Hong Kong people who lived through a previous deadly viral outbreak are calling on the government to step up measures against the latest threat. In 2003, severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) infected 1,755 people in Hong Kong, …
Chinese online retailers are coming up with some creative delivery ideas and scrambling to hire temporary staff amid the coronavirus outbreak. Demand for online grocery delivery services has risen sharply across the country since the government imposed travel restrictions and advised people to stay at home. E-commer…
A robot at New York City’s Times Square is giving out face masks and informing pedestrians about the coronavirus. Passers-by can fill out a short questionnaire on the robot’s touch screen about symptoms they may have experienced. It will then reassure people they are fine or advise them to go to hospital.
Zhong Nanshan, China’s senior medical adviser, said on February 11, 2020 that he was “so proud of” Li Wenliang, the doctor who was detained after trying to blow the whistle on the outbreak and later died from the coronavirus. Zhong rose to fame after combating the 2003 Sars epidemic. In an interview with Reuters, Zh…
Coronavirus medical staff in protective clothing danced with quarantined patients in a temporary hospital in Wuhan, China.
China’s National Health Commission reported on February 11, 2020, that 108 new fatalities had been attributable to the novel coronavirus over the previous 24 hours. The daily death toll figure surpassed 100 for the first time since the outbreak started in December 2019. The global death toll was 1,018, with all but …
Chinese president Xi Jinping visited the Anhuali neighbourhood in Beijing on February 10, 2020. The tour came after China’s health authorities reported a further 97 deaths over the course of February 9, the deadliest day so far. The death toll of the coronavirus officially surpassed that of Sars.
Dr John Nicholls is a clinical professor at the University of Hong Kong who studies influenza viruses including the one behind the deadly 2002-2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars). His current work is focused on the new 2019-ncov coronavirus, which he says is “replicating more rapidly than many …
Thousands of couples gathered for a mass Unification Church wedding in Gapyeong, South Korea, on February 7, 2020, despite concerns about the global coronavirus outbreak. As of February 10, South Korea had 25 confirmed novel coronavirus infection cases.
A nurse was filmed kissing her boyfriend through a hospital’s glass door in eastern China’s Zhejiang province. They planned to get married on Valentine’s Day.
Hundreds of people in New York commemorated Dr Li Wenliang, the coronavirus whistle-blower who died from the disease last week, in a tribute at Central Park on February 9. Li was detained and silenced by Chinese authorities after he warned fellow medics about the outbreak in late December. His death has sparked publ…
China reported 89 more deaths as new infections fell to 2,656 on February 8, according to figures released early on Sunday by the country’s National Health Commission.
As China struggles to contain the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus, some hospitals in the country have deployed robots to help ease the workload for medical staff and reduce human contact to avoid cross-infection.
Singapore has raised its outbreak alert level to the second-highest level after three new cases of coronavirus infection were confirmed, bringing its case total to 33 as of February 7, 2020. The latest people with the virus had no links to others who were ill and no history of recent travel to mainland China, indica…
The Chinese government’s highest anti-corruption agency is sending an investigation team to central Hubei province amid widespread public anger over the death of a doctor who sounded an early alarm about the coronavirus. A wave of public mourning has also followed the death of Li Wenliang, who was initially repriman…
As China grapples with the public health crisis related to a new form of coronavirus, health professionals around the country and the world are looking for vaccines for the infection called 2019-nCoV. While efforts to contain the spread of the disease gather pace, health workers are finding that effective treatment …
A mother desperate to get her leukaemia-stricken daughter to a hospital outside Hubei after the province went into lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, and more trending videos from China this week.
Li Wenliang, the doctor who tried to blow the whistle about the coronavirus outbreak, died on February 6. His hospital confirmed his death after conflicting reports on his condition. Li had tried to warn fellow medics about the new virus in late December but was silenced and detained by local Wuhan authorities who a…
Drone footage shows few people and near-empty streets in Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak. The city in central China, with a population of 11 million, has been in lockdown since January 23. All public transportation, including buses, trains, subways, ferries and flights have been suspended to contain…
Some 20 people tested positive for the novel coronavirus on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan as of February 6, 2020, as another 3,700 people on the boat hunkered down for at least two weeks of quarantine. In late January, an 80-year-old man from Hong Kong was also diagnosed with the virus after disemb…
Is the ongoing coronavirus crisis injecting new life into Hong Kong ‘revolution’ with some toxic side effects? The South China Morning Post’s Chief News Editor, Yonden Lhatoo despairs for the city as the public mood turns ugly in response to a snowballing global health emergency surrounding the outbreak.
The South Korean government disinfected grocery stores selling meat and food ingredients imported from China at Seoul’s Daerim Market on February 5. Amid the coronavirus outbreak, workers sprayed disinfectant in the food market near the village where many Chinese nationals live.
Cruise World Dream, which has been denied entry to Kaohsiung, Taiwan, docked in Hong Kong on February 5, 2020. The cruise ship had carried 8 novel coronavirus patients earlier in January. About 3,600 people, including passengers and crew members, were held on the cruise ship for health checks.
China is about to open a second hospital built at top speed to treat coronavirus patients in Wuhan. Leishenshan (Thunder God Mountain) is expected to open on February 5, 2020, just 10 days after construction began. The new facility will have 1,500 beds, more than the first temporary hospital, the 1,000-bed Huoshensh…
Cathay Pacific announced plans to offer three weeks unpaid leave to all it's employees as a cash saving measure to offset some of the losses caused by the coronavirus crisis.
In the central China city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, people are hoarding food supplies fearing a government-ordered lockdown will last for months as the virus continues to spread. The suspension of transport links has delayed food delivery to the city. China has vowed to maintain food suppl…
A 50-year-old farmer from China’s Hubei province tearfully pleaded with police to be allowed through a checkpoint with her daughter who is suffering from leukaemia to access cancer treatment at hospitals outside the area under a coronavirus lockdown. In an attempt to contain the outbreak, China on January 23, 2020, …
The first group of coronavirus patients have been transferred to the newly-built emergency hospital in Wuhan on February 4. The Huoshenshan hospital was completed last weekend after a 10-day construction. There are 1,000 beds in the hospital with 19 inpatient wards -- including wards for patients in critical conditi…
Lucy Huang, a woman from Wuhan unable to go home to see her family, shared her sadness of being stigmatised by others, as people in other Chinese regions shun anyone from Hubei province, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak.
Hong Kong confirmed its first death from the novel coronavirus on February 4, 2020, after a 39-year-old man died after travelling to Wuhan, the capital of the central Chinese province of Hubei. Health officials say the victim developed a fever after returning to Hong Kong, and was the city’s 13th confirmed case of t…
With 2,345 new cases reported in China’s central province of Hubei as of midnight February 3, 2020, medical experts warned that the official number of coronavirus infections might not reflect the true scale of the outbreak, since many patients may be undiagnosed. Of the new cases reported, 1,242 were in Wuhan, the p…
A hospital in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia is at the centre of efforts to preserve koalas as prolonged drought, intense heat and strong winds continue to fuel bush fires that started in September 2019.
World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on February 3 that there was no need for measures that “unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade” amid the coronavirus outbreak. Many countries, including the US, Australia and Singapore, are trying to contain the spread of the new vi…
Coronavirus had infected 19,726 people and killed 425 in China by Tuesday, February 4. The virus has also infected 212 people and killed 1 in Beijing. 21 million people live and work in the capital and 7.6 million people come from other parts of China, now they are returning to work after the Lunar New Year holiday.…
A mum in China’s Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, was filmed crying while sending food to her son, a frontline doctor in self-quarantine. After the video went viral online, the doctor’s younger sister has been collecting medical supplies for hospitals in need.
Workers returning after the Lunar New Year holiday expressed worries about contracting virus during their commute.
Huoshenshan, one of the two temporary hospitals built to fight the coronavirus in central China’s Hubei province, opened on 3 February, 2020. It took ten days to finish construction. It will provide 1,000 beds specifically for coronavirus patients.
