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Russia postpones SCO, BRICS summits amid COVID-19 pandemic

Russia has decided to postpone the 2020 summits of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and BRICS initially scheduled to be held in St. Petersburg in July, the Kremlin announced Wednesday. The

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Japan to decide whether to partially end state of emergency on May 14

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wears a protective mask after a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, April 17, 2020. /Reuters Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday said the government wil

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Xi chairs leadership meeting on regular epidemic control, supporting Hubei development

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Wednesday chaired a leadership meeting on regular epidemic prevention and con

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Impact felt in Brazil where income inequality is extreme

02:55 The measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic are already hurting economies in Latin America.And these countries may be seeing only the beginning of the problem.Our correspondent P

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China's Hubei postpones national college entrance exam by a month

Central China's Hubei Province, which was hit hard by COVID-19, announced Monday that the province's national college entrance exam, also known as Gaokao, would be pos

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Xi chairs leadership meeting on regular epidemic control, economic work

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Friday chaired a leadership meeting on regular COVID-19 epidemic prevention a

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Xi chairs leadership meeting on epidemic control, economic development

President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Friday chaired a leadership meeting to analyze the situation of

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Chinese medical team heads to Ethiopia to battle COVID-19

A medical team consisting of 12 experts departed for Ethiopia from Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province Thursday to join in the fight against the novel coronavirus. The experts

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Xi chairs leadership meeting on regular epidemic control, work resumption

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Wednesday chaired a leadership meeting to make new arrangements on implementi

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Urgent: Global coronavirus death toll tops 60,000, cases pass 1.1 mln: WHO

A total of 62,784 people have died of COVID-19 globally as the number of infections has surged to 1,133,681 as of 10:00 CET Sunday, showed the situation dashboard by the World Health Organization (WH

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COVID-19 pandemic kills over 50,000 worldwide: WHO

A total of 50,325 people had died of COVID-19 around the world as of 10:00 CET (0800 GMT) Friday, according to the situation dashboard by the World Health Organization (WHO). The number of confirmed

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Overwhelmed U.S. doctors share COVID-19 experiences

02:23 How bad is the situation in the U.S. and how much worse will it get? Some doctors are now sharing their experiences about treating COVID-19 patients.

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Dr Zhong: No official numbers for asymptomatic carriers

01:30 CGTN's Tian Wei interviewed Dr. Zhong Nanshan about the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic. Here's what Dr. Zhong has to say on asymptomatic carriers

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COVID-19: Google chef talks about life during the coronavirus pandemic

04:18 Jose Rodriguez is a chef with tech company Google - but since the outbreak of COVID-19 in the U.S., the staff on the campus has been sharply reduced. So what does Jose do now tha

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Putin signs decree postponing constitutional amendments vote

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree postponing the all-Russian vote on constitutional amendments, the Kremlin said Wednesday in a statement. The decision was made to avoid health ri

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COVID-19 infections outside China surpass 100,000: WHO

The number of COVID-19 infections outside China has risen to 112,878 as of Wednesday morning, as the global number of cases is nearing 200,000, according to the situation dashboard by the World Hea

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U.S. expands travel ban, considers domestic lockdowns

The White House is considering stricter measures as the situation deteroriates in the U.S.A travel ban is extended to the U.K. and Ireland, in addition to other European countries.And, there's the po