Chinese secrecy slowed the UK’s response to the coronavirus crisis, Michael Gove swiped today. The Cabinet minister said although the first case was identified before Christmas, the communist state had not been ‘clear about the scale, the nature, the infectiousness’. The dig came amid mounting criticism of the government’s approach, including delays in ramping up … Read more
Lockdowns and travel restrictions are the best methods to slow the spread of coronavirus, a new study of China suggests. Researchers from the University of Oxford in the UK and Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, found that in Wuhan – the epicenter of the outbreak – restriction on travels came too late. Once the locked … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
Chinese media outlets have linked the origin of the coronavirus pandemic with Italy after a Milan-based professor said doctors there saw ‘very strange’ pneumonia cases as early as November. Beijing is now rejecting the widely held assessment that the city of Wuhan is the birthplace of the global outbreak after the number of daily infections … Read more
Volvo in talks to merge with Chinese company Geely by the end of this year after abandoned Stockholm float By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 10 February 2020 | Updated: 11:23 GMT, 12 February 2020 Tie-up: Volvo is in talks to merge with Chinese company Geely Volvo is in talks to … Read more
Police arrest two girls, 14 and 15, for ‘assaulting a group of Chinese people’ wearing face masks in Southampton Two arrested over racially motivated ‘coronavirus rage’ attack at four people The incident occured on the 17th March in Vincent’s Walk, Southampton Anyone with information about this incident should call 101 or Crimestoppers and quote the following … Read more
Her 65-year-old mother Joan was rushed to hospital with pneumonia earlier this week amid the coronavirus pandemic. And Gemma Collins revealed she had broken her strict diet and ordered a Chinese takeaway to help alleviate her anxiety about the future. The reality star, 39 – who has shed a whopping three stone so far on … Read more
Chinese province of Wuhan reports NO new coronavirus cases for the first time since the deadly outbreak began there China’s Hubei province and its city of Wuhan reported no new cases Thursday Despite this their were eight new deaths in province, Wuhan accounting for six Health Ministry reported 34 cases across mainland China, all of … Read more
President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his use of the term ‘China virus’ to describe the coronavirus, saying ‘it’s not racist at all.’ The president, repeatedly this week, has talked about the ‘China virus,’ a moniker that has been called racist. China expelled journalists from three major American news outlet in the wake of Trump’s … Read more
A flu drug is ‘clearly effective’ in treating coronavirus, medical experts in China have claimed. Favipiravir, the active ingredient in a Japanese anti-flu medicine called Avigan, was trialled on 340 patients with the killer disease in China. Patients who took Favipiravir recovered quicker and showed greater lung improvement compared with patients not given the drug. … Read more