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Wuhan Records New Cases Of Virus After Lockdown Ease

May 12, 2020 5:37 am

Wuhan, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China, has reported its first new infections since the lifting of lockdown on the central Chinese city.

According to the Chinese state media, the Wuhan health authorities made this known in a statement on Monday stating that five cases were discovered on Sunday in a single residential community, the first confirmed in the city since April 3.

The health authorities said that 17 new infections were reported in China on Monday, Seven out of the cases were “imported” on a flight to Beijing that stopped in Inner Mongolia’s Hohhot for

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Coronavirus Not Reported To WHO On Time – Pompeo Insists

April 23, 2020 7:14 am

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday renewed the Trump administration’s criticism of China’s early handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

Pompeo said at a news conference; “We strongly believe that the Chinese Communist Party did not report the outbreak of the new coronavirus in a timely fashion to the World Health Organisation”.

Even after Beijing notified the global health body, it “didn’t share all of the information it had,” he said.

“Instead it covered up how dangerous the disease is. It didn’t report sustained human-to-human transmission for a month until it was in every province inside of China.

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UK Prepares To Extend Virus Lockdown – Peak Hasn’t Passed

April 13, 2020 6:38 pm

The British government warned Monday it would not be lifting a nationwide lockdown anytime soon as the country remains in the grip of a coronavirus outbreak that has claimed more than 11,000 lives.

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who is deputising for Prime Minister Boris Johnson as he recovers from his own bout of COVID-19, said there were some “positive” signs of progress.

But he warned at a daily media briefing: “We’re still not past the peak of this virus.”

The government must decide by Thursday whether to maintain three-week-old lockdown rules to keep schools and shops shut and order people …

Coronavirus Overwhelms Ecuador, Police Pick 800 Bodies

April 13, 2020 7:02 am

Ecuador said police have removed almost 800 bodies in recent weeks from homes in Guayaquil, the epicenter of the country’s coronavirus outbreak.

The police moved in after the disease overwhelmed emergency services, hospitals and funeral parlours.

Mortuary workers in the Pacific port city have been unable to cope with a backlog, with residents posting videos on social media showing abandoned bodies in the streets.

“The number we have collected with the task force from people’s homes exceeded 700 people,” said Jorge Wated, who leads a team of police and military personnel created by the government to help with the chaos …

Queen Elizabeth To Broadcast Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

April 3, 2020 2:38 pm

Queen Elizabeth will make an extremely rare broadcast to Britons on Sunday as the country grapples with the coronavirus outbreak.

“Her Majesty The Queen has recorded a special broadcast to the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth in relation to the coronavirus outbreak,” Buckingham Palace said in a statement.

The address, which was recorded at Windsor Castle where the 93-year-old monarch is hibernating with her husband Prince Philip, will be broadcast at 1900 GMT on Sunday.

The news came as the death toll among those who had tested positive for the virus rose on Friday by 684 to 3,605, up

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Football Will Be Different Post-Coronavirus – Infantino

April 3, 2020 8:46 am

Football will be totally different when it eventually resumes after the coronavirus outbreak, the head of global body FIFA Gianni Infantino said on Thursday.

“Football will come back, and when it does, we’ll celebrate coming out of a nightmare together,” he told the Italian news agency ANSA in an interview.

“There is one lesson, however, that both you and me must have understood: the football that will come after the virus will be totally different…(more) inclusive, more social and more supportive, connected to the individual countries and at the same time more global, less arrogant and more welcoming.”

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Trump Opens Up On China’s False Coronavirus Figures

April 2, 2020 7:42 am

President Donald Trump joined U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday to cast doubt on the accuracy of official Chinese figures on its coronavirus outbreak after.

“How do we know” if they are accurate, Trump asked at a press conference. “Their numbers seem to be a little bit on the light side.”

Trump insisted that “the relationship with China’s a good one” and that he remained close to President Xi Jinping.

However, controversy around Beijing’s transparency has strained ties, adding to bad feelings triggered by a conspiracy theory in China that the US military was to blame for the virus.

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Coronavirus Infections Records Low Numbers In China

April 1, 2020 12:13 pm

China where the coronavirus outbreak first emerged in December reported dwindling new infections on Wednesday.

For the first time it disclosed the number of asymptomatic cases which could complicate how trends in the outbreak are read.

Almost all of Tuesday’s 36 new cases involved arrivals from overseas, the National Health Commission said, down from 48 a day earlier and taking total infections to 81,554.

But that figure excludes 130 new sufferers of the highly contagious disease who do not show symptoms, its statistics showed.

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Coronavirus Prompts A Run On Guns In US

March 25, 2020 5:50 pm

Gun sales have exploded in the United States in the last two weeks as the coronavirus outbreak worsens, with people stocking up on weapons and ammunition out of fear the pandemic might lead to social unrest.

“We have had about an 800 percent increase in sales,” said David Stone, owner of Dong’s Guns, Ammo and Reloading in Tulsa, Oklahoma. “I’m still not out of any caliber but I’m getting close to running out.”

Stone told AFP that the overall majority of customers rushing to stock up on firearms and ammunition are first-time buyers grabbing anything available.

“It’s fear over coronavirus,” …

Spanish Soldiers Find Bodies In Retirement Homes

March 24, 2020 5:04 pm

Spanish soldiers deployed to help fight the new coronavirus outbreak have found elderly patients abandoned, and sometimes dead, at retirement homes, as an ice rink inside a Madrid shopping mall was turned into a temporary morgue to cope with a surge in cases.

The army has been charged with helping to disinfect retirement homes in Spain, one of the countries worst hit by the pandemic. Dozens of deaths from COVID-19 have been recorded at facilities across the country.

“We are going to be strict and inflexible when dealing with the way old people are treated in these residences,” Defence …

Coronavirus: Wuhan To Ease Lockdown Rules

March 24, 2020 11:52 am

The lockdown in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the global coronavirus outbreak began, will be partially lifted on 8 April, officials say.

Travel restrictions in the rest of Hubei province, where Wuhan is located, will be lifted from midnight on Tuesday – for residents who are healthy.

A single new case of the virus was reported in Wuhan on Tuesday following almost a week of no new cases.

Countries around the world have gone into lockdown or imposed severe curbs.

The UK is getting to grips with sweeping new measures to tackle the spread of coronavirus, including a ban on …

Emirates Reverses Decision To Suspend Passenger Flights

March 23, 2020 4:14 pm

Dubai carrier Emirates reversed on Sunday its decision to suspend all passenger flights, shortly after it said it would halt operations from March 25 amid the novel coronavirus outbreak.

The airline said it “received requests from governments and customers to support the repatriation of travellers” and will continue to operate passenger flights to 13 destinations, down from its usual 159.

Emirates will continue to fly to the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Australia, South Africa, the United States and Canada.

The announcement was made just hours after a previous statement said the …

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Wuhan Records New Cases Of Virus After Lockdown Ease

Coronavirus Not Reported To WHO On Time – Pompeo Insists

UK Prepares To Extend Virus Lockdown – Peak Hasn’t Passed

Coronavirus Overwhelms Ecuador, Police Pick 800 Bodies

Queen Elizabeth To Broadcast Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

Football Will Be Different Post-Coronavirus – Infantino

Trump Opens Up On China’s False Coronavirus Figures

Coronavirus Infections Records Low Numbers In China

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Spanish Soldiers Find Bodies In Retirement Homes

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