A 59-year-old man in Chongqing, China is facing criminal charges for threatening to kill himself with firecrackers and gasoline because his birthday party was canceled by officials worried about the coronavirus epidemic.
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party in Zimbabwe pushed for a total ban on Chinese travelers on Wednesday in hopes of keeping the Wuhan coronavirus from spreading to Africa.
Shenzhen and Guangzhou, two of China’s largest cities, have been granted the authority to “requisition” personal property in order to halt the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.
A British man who was extradited from Thailand, has collapsed in a UK prison and is feared to have contracted the deadly coronavirus.
China’s state media continued hectoring the Western world about “overreacting” to the Wuhan coronavirus with a Global Times editorial on Tuesday that accused the United States of fabricating virus horror stories to “tarnish the image of China.”
City officials confirmed that an unspecified number of Texans have been placed in a 14-day “self quarantine” in their homes on Sunday.
Chinese citizen journalist Chen Qiushi, who has been reporting on the coronavirus outbreak from ground zero in Wuhan, disappeared on Thursday just as public outrage was mounting over the death of whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang.
The UK has declared Coronavirus a “serious and imminent threat”, giving the govt emergency powers to detain suspected infected.
The United Kingdom is facing a “major outbreak” of the deadly coronavirus, warns the scientist who co-discovered the Ebola virus in Africa.
A report at the Epoch Times on Thursday found appalling conditions at the hotels in Wuhan, China, where coronavirus patients have been quarantined. Whistleblowing family members of the quarantined patients said they have been left to die without medical care.
Over 140 Russians have been quarantined in Siberia after returning from the coronavirus outbreak area in Hubei province. The detainees are confined to their rooms but have been putting on a lively social media show, chatting with well-wishers and posting photos and videos of their situation.
Chinese officials in Xinjiang province, home of the oppressed Uyghur Muslims, said on Thursday that at least 99 residents of Wuhan are under quarantine in the city of Atush.
The Chinese government announced a new policy in Wuhan Friday to isolate individuals testing positive for the novel coronavirus ravaging the city in what the New York Times is calling “quarantine camps.”
China’s state-run Global Times ran an editorial on Wednesday calling for the Chinese people to unite against the Wuhan coronavirus epidemic, which of course means “trust and obey the Communist Party” in practice.
Beijing has begun sacking local officials in Hubei province over the coronavirus outbreak, including two Communist Party officials who left a teenager with cerebral palsy without care for six days while his family was placed in quarantine. The teenager died as a result of this neglect.
Russia announced on Tuesday that it will establish a quarantine zone in Siberia for planeloads of Russian nationals evacuated from China’s Hubei province, epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.
A U.S. citizen is among the infected on a cruise liner which has been placed into quarantine after an outbreak of Coronavirus onboard.
The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that numerous popular business applications crashed in China on Monday due to the enormous surge in demand from employees who decided to work from home after the Lunar New Year holiday ended, rather than return to their offices and risk infection by the Wuhan coronavirus.
Chinese officials announced the total number of people infected by the Wuhan coronavirus now exceeds 20,000, with 427 fatalities reported worldwide. Officials reported 64 new deaths in China on Tuesday, making it the deadliest day of the epidemic so far.
The UK Foreign Office has issued a warning to all British citizens currently within China to leave the communist nation, as the official death toll of the deadly coronavirus has reached 425, with an additional 20,000 estimated cases.
The United Kingdom is currently trying to track down 438 people who traveled to the UK from Wuhan before the city was quarantined.
A Hong Kong-based news outlet called Initium Media alleged on Wednesday that the Chinese Communist government is secretly cremating victims of the Wuhan coronavirus to keep the death toll down.
An editorial by China’s state-run Xinhua news service on Wednesday strove to portray the Chinese Communist Party as a noble victim of unfair criticism, striving to control the Wuhan virus epidemic with measures so draconian they have been unreasonably denounced as human rights violations.
British Airways has cancelled flights to China, and travellers returning from China will be quarantined to prevent the spread of the virus.
A physicians group that educates about potential U.S. disasters says the novel coronavirus outbreak could become a pandemic.
