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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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U.S. Deepens Charge Against China’s Wuhan Lab

May 3, 2020 2:32 pm

The United States has doubled down on its accusation that China’s Wuhan lab unleashed the disruptive coronavirus into the world.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that there was “enormous evidence” that the virus originated in the lab.

“There is enormous evidence that this is where it began,” he said on ABC’s “This Week.”

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But while highly critical of China’s handling of the matter, Pompeo declined to say whether he thought the virus had been intentionally released.

President Donald Trump has been increasingly critical of China’s role in …

Director Of Wuhan Lab Denies Virus Link

April 19, 2020 6:11 pm

The director of a maximum-security laboratory in China’s coronavirus ground-zero city of Wuhan has rejected claims that it could be the source of the outbreak, calling it “impossible”.

Beijing has come under increasing pressure over transparency in its handling of the pandemic, with the US probing whether the virus actually originated in a virology institute with a high-security biosafety laboratory.

Chinese scientists have said the virus likely jumped from an animal to humans in a market that sold wildlife.

But the existence of the facility has fuelled conspiracy theories that the germ spread from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, specifically …

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 …

US Rebukes Chinese Envoy Over Wuhan Coronavirus Origin

March 14, 2020 5:30 am

The U.S. State Department summoned the Chinese ambassador to the United States on Friday to protest against comments by Beijing suggesting the U.S. military might have brought the coronavirus to Wuhan.

David Stillwell, the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia, delivered a very “stern representation” to China’s ambassador Cui Tiankai, a State Department official said, adding that Beijing’s envoy was “very defensive.”

The State Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said China was seeking to deflect criticism of its role in “starting a global pandemic and not telling the world.”

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Coronavirus: Chinese President Visits Wuhan

March 10, 2020 11:08 am

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday made his first visit to Wuhan since coronavirus outbreak forced an unprecedented lockdown of the central city of 11 million people.

According to the president, this is a sign that authorities’ efforts to control the virus are working.

“4 Xi’s arrival came on the same day that Wuhan shut the last of 14 makeshift hospitals opened to manage a surge in coronavirus patients that had overwhelmed the city’s health care system,’’ news website The Paper reported.

Earlier on, China announced that it had just 19 new coronavirus infections on Monday, down from 40 a …

FG Promises Aid For Maurice Iwu’s Effort For Virus Cure

March 3, 2020 4:43 am

Maurice Iwu, former chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission and professor of pharmacognosy got the assurances of two Nigerian ministers on Monday to support his team on their drug project for Wuhan coronavirus.

Based on evaluation, his research effort may be boosted with a N36m grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Iwu told the ministers that the purpose of his visit was to formally brief him on his team’s efforts toward finding a treatment for the Wuhan Coronavirus.

He disclosed that the lead drug discovery project included the chemical isolation and characterisation of naturally occurring compounds and subjecting …