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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.
A second plane bringing back French and other nationals from the Chinese city Wuhan landed at the military base of Istres, in the South of France, on February 2, 2020. Some 180 repatriated French nationals are now being quarantined at a seaside holiday camp in southern France. One person on the first plane of evacue…
New information is emerging daily about the new strain of coronavirus that has infected thousands of people, mostly in China. Hundreds have died from the previously unknown virus, including the first death reported outside of China on February 2. The spread of the virus has been categorised by the World Health Organ…
The Philippines has announced the country’s first death as a result of the coronavirus outbreak that originated in China and has spread to at least 26 other countries and territories. As governments beef up measures to contain the virus, China has also announced an outbreak of avian flu in Hunan province, near the e…
The Chinese city of Wuhan is ground zero for the new coronavirus that has caused a global health emergency. The city has been on lockdown since January 23, 2020.
Confirmed cases and deaths from the new coronavirus have hit record daily levels in China. 11,791 cases have been confirmed in 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions as of Friday according to the Chinese health authority. New deaths have brought the nationwide toll to 259. Authorities in China’s coronav…
Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced on January 31 that the city is not closing the border completely with mainland China despite the coronavirus outbreak. A medical union had threatened earlier that about 6,500 of its members would strike if the border stayed open.
While health officials try to contain the deadly coronavirus outbreak in China and abroad, fears of the virus have fueled xenophobia and anti-China sentiment.
International corporations including Starbucks, Shanghai Disneyland, Google, several airlines and car companies have been shutting down their operations across China due to the deadly coronavirus outbreak. The World Health Organisation declared it a global health emergency on January 30, 2020.
On January 30, 2020, the United Nations’ World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus, known as 2019-nCoV and the novel coronavirus, a global emergency.
A man in central China’s Hubei province, suffering from fever, was filmed removing his mask and coughing at medical workers after he failed to get the medicine that he had been prescribed.
Felicity Feng, a Canadian visiting her parents in Wuhan over the Lunar New Year holiday, was caught up in the deadly coronavirus outbreak and the lockdown. Feng said her father was one of the project managers overseeing the construction of a new hospital for the coronavirus patients.
A Hong Kong health care workers’ union said on January 29 that they plan to go on strike if the government does not close all border crossings with mainland China and provide them with safety gear to handle suspected coronavirus cases.
Many people in China stayed home by choice or by order over the Lunar New Year holiday because of the widespread coronavirus outbreak which has already infected more than 6,000 people as of January 29. Being confined to their homes, some managed to find ingenious ways to overcome the boredom and shared their creativ…
Scientists in Australia have become the first to recreate the coronavirus outside of China. The sample will be shared with the World Health Organisation in the hope of combating the global spread of the disease. China’s Wuhan coronavirus had killed 132 people and infected more than 6,000 as of January 29, 2020.
Director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of the World Health Organisation met President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China, on January 29, 2020. A spokesman for the organisation back in Switzerland meanwhile called the coronavirus outbreak an 'emergency in China', but still not a ‘global emergency’.
As fatality rates caused by the China coronavirus continue to rise, two temporary hospitals – Huoshenshan and Leishenshan – are being built in Wuhan in an effort to provide an extra 2,300 beds. The hospitals are expected to be completed by February 2 and February 5 respectively. More medical teams have also been dep…
A chartered flight from Tokyo landed in Wuhan, China to evacuate Japanese nationals from the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak. Japanese health officials boarded the aircraft with medical supplies, including thermometers and masks. The plane will fly out around 200 people, but 650 Japanese citizens have expresse…
Physicist Liu Yu is amongst the thousands of doctors who have been deployed to fight the coronavirus outbreak on the frontline in Wuhan. China has been sending medical teams to Wuhan, the centre of the coronavirus outbreak, to fight the deadly virus as the death toll climbed to 106 on January 28, 2020 and more than …
China’s Ministry of Finance has said 11.21 billion yuan, or approximately US$1.63 billion, has been allocated to fighting the coronavirus outbreak. The funds will mainly be used for medical treatment, the procurement of equipment and epidemic control materials. Since the outbreak, factory workers and medical profess…
Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, has been in lockdown since January 23. The government closed off the city of 11 million people in an attempt to contain the deadly virus which has already killed at least 80 people and infected more than 2,000.
A newly built housing block in Fanling in Hong Kong's New Territories, that was planned to be used as a quarantine facility for people who may have been exposed to Wuhan coronavirus, was fire-bombed on Sunday, January 26, 2020. Dozens of residents and protesters opposed to the idea held rallies outside the complex. …
More than 2,000 people worldwide have been confirmed infected with Wuhan coronavirus. The majority of cases remain in the city of Wuhan in central China's Hubei province, where the virus originated. The spread of the previously unknown coronavirus has seen nearly a dozen cities in Hubei impose travel restrictions, a…
Hong Kong has designated two holiday camps as quarantine centres for a new strain of coronavirus that has infected hundreds in mainland China. The city is currently dealing with two confirmed cases. The camps are intended to monitor individuals who may have had contact with carriers of the virus.
On January 23, 2020, officials in the central Chinese city of Wuhan imposed a complete travel ban on people entering or leaving amid the coronavirus outbreak suspected to originate there. Since then, besides the Hubei’s capital of Wuhan, 12 additional cities and counties in the province were locked down in an attemp…
An overworked doctor collapsed twice from exhaustion, and more viral stories from China this week.
Staff Sgt Byun Hee-soo is a transgender soldier in South Korea’s military who was registered as male at birth, and entered service as a man. After going through sex reassignment surgery last November, the military discharged her, claiming she had violated regulations.
Medical workers in Wuhan’s Jinyintan hospital are putting in long gruelling shifts and battling their own fears to combat a coronavirus outbreak. China has suspended all transport in and out of Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak. As of January 23, at least 17 people had died of coronavirus, and more than 600 infec…
China has confirmed that person-to-person transmission is possible with a newly identified coronavirus emerging from the city of Wuhan in the central province of Hubei. As of January 22, 2020, at least nine deaths were blamed on the virus, and cases were being reported in other parts of Asia and as far away as the U…
There is increasing concern over a new coronavirus that originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, after officials confirmed cases of human-to-human transmission. The virus has killed at least six people and infected almost 300. But as China enters its peak travel season, hundreds of millions of people are rushing hom…
An outbreak of African swine fever has decimated half of the country’s hog population. An estimated 200 million pigs have died of the virus or culled.
Some baby kangaroos unlucky enough to be caught up in Australia's recent bush fires have caught a break after they were rescued by a volunteer wildlife carer. Laurie Carter has been spending money out of his own pocket to build a sanctuary for the animals, and investing plenty of time to nurse the animals back to he…
Health authorities in China have confirmed a third death from a coronavirus identified in Wuhan in the central province of Hubei. The officials also said on January 20, 2020, that the outbreak has spread to more cities, with two people in Beijing and one in Shenzhen found to have been infected with the mystery virus.
An overworked doctor in southwestern China’s Sichuan province collapsed twice from exhaustion. His story has moved many online.
A 69-year-old man who died January 15, 2020, is the second person to die from a new strain of coronavirus linked to the central Chinese city of Wuhan. Health authorities in the city in Hubei province announced the death on January 16. On the same day, Japan announced its first confirmed case, a man in his 30s who te…
Thai authorities have confirmed the first case outside China of a new strain of coronavirus first discovered in the Chinese city of Wuhan. A 61-year-old Chinese woman was found to be suffering from a fever upon her arrival at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport on January 8, 2020, Thai officials said on January 13. They …
Chinese government scientists have identified a new coronavirus as the cause of a mystery pneumonia outbreak in the central city of Wuhan. At least 59 people were infected with the new strain, and a regional health alert was raised in Hong Kong and elsewhere in the region. No patients have died, but health authoriti…
The number of patients infected with an unknown strain of pneumonia continues to rise in Wuhan, the capital of China’s central province of Hubei. Health authorities in the city said the number of cases had increased from 44 to 59 as of January 5, 2020.
An unknown strain of pneumonia has been making people ill in Wuhan, China. 44 people have been infected with the unidentified virus, with 11 of them in a serious condition. The local government and health authorities have been able to rule out Avian flu, influenza and adenovirus infection.
More than 100 children have reportedly died in a government-run hospital this past month in Kota, a town in India’s Rajasthan state. India’s health ministry rushed a team of paediatricians and medical experts to the hospital on January 3.
A protest rally in Hong Kong on Sunday December 22, 2019, against China’s treatment of Muslim Uygurs in Xinjiang, descended into chaos and saw a police officer draw his weapon as he came under attack. Anti-government protests in Hong Kong have now been ongoing for more than six months.
Each member of the Chinese rock band 8772 has a disability, including brittle bone disease and albinism. They hope their music helps people see them as more than their disabilities.
A father in southwestern China’s Sichuan province filmed himself raging at a nurse after he found a “worm” in his son’s IV line. The hospital apologised for the incident.
Chinese state network dropped a live broadcast of an Arsenal game against Manchester City on December 15 after Mesut Ozil criticised China’s treatment of Uygurs. Ozil and Arsenal faced backlash from Chinese authorities and fans, even though the club tried to distance itself from the football star’s comments.
A video that emerged on Thursday captured a freak accident in which a primary school boy fell out of his school bus, prompting the vehicle behind to pull a sudden brake to avoid a life-threatening collision. The incident happened on December 4 and the pupil was sent to the hospital immediately after, suffering only …
As the marriage rate in China fell to 7.3 per 1,000 in 2018, more affluent single women are seeking to become mothers without husbands. They are turning to overseas options, because unmarried women in the country are largely barred from accessing sperm banks and in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment, where an egg i…
A father-to-be in southwestern China’s Sichuan province was seen squatting to become a “human chair” for his pregnant wife to rest on. They were waiting to take a test at a hospital, and the mother-to-be’s legs had become numb.
A memorial vigil has been held in Afghanistan for Tetsu Nakamura, the head of the non-governmental organisation Peace Japan Medical Services, who was among at least six people killed when gunmen attacked their convoy on December 4, 2019.
