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Senior official stresses accomplishing poverty relief tasks despite epidemic outbreak

Hu Chunhua, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has called for efforts to win the country's battle against poverty whil

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Iran cancels Friday prayer ceremony over COVID-19

Iranian capital Tehran's Friday prayer ceremony was cancelled by the headquarters of the event, official IRNA news agency reported on Thursday. The ceremony has been c

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Delta Air Lines expects to resume China flights soon

01:18 Delta Air Lines expects its China flights to resume soon as the country's battle against the novel coronavirus epidemic has been showing signs of a victory in the near future, ac

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Iranian vice president tests positive for COVID-19: report

Masoumeh Ebtekar, Iran's vice president for women and family affairs, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, according to IRNA.It came after the country's deputy health minister Iraj Harirchi

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Renowned expert: CDC should have a bigger say

"In China, the position of CDC (Center for Disease Control Prevention) is too low," said Zhong Nanshan, head of the high-level expert group appointed by China's National Health Commission to fight

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5G-aided remote CT scans used to diagnose COVID-19 patients in Chengdu

The application of 5G in the medical field has become a reality.Doctors at West China Hospital of Sichuan University – one of the most prestigious medical centers in the country – has started usin

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Three military-led hospitals in coronavirus-hit Wuhan increase capacity to 2,900 beds

Three designated hospitals where military medics are tasked with treating patients of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Wuhan, the epicenter of the virus out

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Senior Iranian lawmaker infected by novel coronavirus

Mojtaba Zonnour, head of National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iran's parliament, has caught the novel coronavirus, official IRNA news agency reported on

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26 die in Iran over COVID-19: official

The outbreak of coronavirus, officially named as COVID-19, in Iran has affected 245 people, Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education announced on Thursday. Kian

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Half of Japan's prefectures yet to add more hospital beds for COVID-19: survey

Almost half of Japan's 47 prefectures have not yet added extra hospital beds for patients infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as requested by the central go

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PBOC increases re-lending, re-discount quota by 500 billion yuan

China's central bank said on Wednesday it has increased re-lending and re-discount quota by 500 billion yuan (71.2 billion U.S. dollars) to help medium-sized, small and micro enterprises weather t

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Maersk supports China's coronavirus fight with logistics

00:56 Danish shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk has been facilitating the delivery of medical supplies for areas hit by the coronavirus outbreak in China, Caroline Wu, managing director

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Trump appoints Pence to oversee U.S. response to COVID-19 outbreak

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday appointed Vice President Mike Pence to oversee the country's response to the novel coronavirus outbreak. "I'm going to be announcing exactly right now that I

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Expert: China to contain COVID-19 epidemic by end of April

China will contain the coronavirus epidemic by the end of April, the head of China's COVID-19 expert team, Zhong Nanshan, said in a press conference held in Guangzhou City on Thursday.Zhong added tha

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China reports 433 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection, 29 new deaths

Chinese health authority said Thursday it received reports of 433 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection and 29 deaths on Wednesday from 31 provincial-leve

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Virus-hit Italy may get EU reprieve over debt

European Economic Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni attends a news conference on public finances in EU states at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, February 26, 2020. /Reuters

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Officials punished for reports of "minus infections" of virus

Several officials have received punishment for reporting "minus infections" of the novel coronavirus in the city of Jingmen in central China's Hubei Province. The Hube