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Coronavirus: Washing your hands 'more effective than wearing a mask'

01:00 Regularly washing your hands could be more effective against catching the novel coronavirus than wearing a surgical mask, according to experts.Although demand for protective clot

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Group of 77, U.N. support China's effort to contain coronavirus

Medical workers in protective suits move a patient at an isolated ward of a hospital in Caidian district following an outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, Hubei province, China February 6,

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Activist gig workers seek to form nonprofit to support fellow workers

Vanessa Bain (pictured above), a well-known gig worker-activist, has teamed up with fellow gig worker-activist Sarah Clarke (pseudonym) to form the Gig Workers Collective. It’s early days for th

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US charges Chinese military hackers with Equifax breach

An indictment naming four alleged hackers was unsealed on Monday as US officials warned hackers they were not anonymous online.

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China shows courage, commitment in epidemic fight: Tu Youyou

Chinese Nobel laureate Tu Youyou on Monday expressed her thanks to medical workers around the world, especially those who are fighting on the frontlines against the no

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WHO team of int'l experts on way to China for novel coronavirus outbreak

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said late Sunday that the WHO-led team of international experts had left for China amid the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

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Businesses in China capable of overcoming challenges posed by epidemic

Workers making masks in the workshop of a medical supplies company in Jiaozuo City, central China's Henan Province, Feb. 9, 2020. [Photo: Xinhua] Note: The following article is taken from the

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Northeastern Chinese city tightens epidemic control on taxis

Taxis lining up to get a QR code stick for the new real-name registration system. /CGTN Photo The taxi pick-up point at Shenyang Train Station, northeast China's Liaoning Province, was quieter

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Xi extends condolences to people who died from coronavirus

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Monday extended deep condolences to those who died from the novel coronavirus pn

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Profile: Disposing of medical waste to help contain coronavirus

Wearing a white protective suit, a red safety helmet, a face mask and goggles, Feng Tao, an inspector at the Urumqi Medical Waste Disposal Center in northwest China's

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Medics helping Wuhan receive training

With China moving all suspected and confirmed novel coronavirus cases under home quarantine to hospitals and other isolation facilities,more medical workers are needed to treat them. While some me

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Wuhan receives 5,787 airborne medics in one day

Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, received 41 charter flights on Sunday, with a total of 5,787 medical workers onboard, the most in a single day

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Oscars put on diversity show after #OscarsSoWhite

Janelle Monae and Billy Porter perform onstage at the 92nd Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, February 9, 2020. /AP Photo Slammed for failing to nominate female directors and

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China carefully returns to work amid anti-epidemic battle

Chinese authorities are carefully balancing efforts to control the novel coronavirus epidemic and minimize its impact on the economy as millions of people head back to work Monday after an extended

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Xi inspects coronavirus-treating hospital in Beijing

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, inspected the Beijing Ditan Hospital, a designated institution treating the novel coro

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Nearly 4 million community workers fighting on front line of epidemic control: official

Nearly 4 million community workers are fighting on the front line of 650,000 urban and rural communities following the novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak, a civil af

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Xi inspects novel coronavirus prevention, control work in Beijing

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Monday inspected the novel coronavirus pneumonia prevention and control work in Bei