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Hong Kong declares Wuhan virus outbreak an ’emergency’

  by Jerome TAYLOR / Su Xinqi Agence France Presse Hong Kong on Saturday declared a new coronavirus outbreak as…

China orders nationwide measures to detect virus on flights, trains, buses

  BEIJING, China (AFP) -- China has ordered nationwide measures to identify and immediately isolate suspected cases of a deadly…

Case of patient who recovers from coronavirus in China’s Zhejiang province brings hope

  (Eagle News) -- A case of a coronavirus patient cured of the disease on Friday in east China's Zhejiang…

Doctor at virus frontline in Wuhan dies; Chinese gov’t deploys more medics with experience in SARS, Ebola

Liang Wudong, a doctor at Hubei Xinhua Hospital who had been at the front line of the #CoronavirusOutbreak battle in…

Nepal reports South Asia’s first confirmed case of deadly virus

  KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) -- Health authorities in Nepal on Friday confirmed that a student who returned from Wuhan, China…

UPDATED: Powerful quake kills 21 in eastern Turkey

  by Mahmut Bozarslan and Fulya Ozerkan in Istanbul Agence France Presse ELAZIG, Turkey (AFP) --A powerful earthquake has killed…

Deadly corona virus death toll jumps to 41 in China; more than 1,000 now infected

  WUHAN, China (AFP) -- The number of confirmed deaths from a deadly viral outbreak in China has risen to…

‘See the doctor’: fever-hit patients fret in Wuhan as city is locked down

https://youtu.be/Ev3jTvvsEW4   by Sebastien Ricci and Leo Ramirez Agence France Presse WUHAN, China (AFP) -- Trapped in a Chinese city…

Thousands protest in Iraq to demand ouster of US troops

  by Ammar Karim and Ayman Henna Agence France Presse BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) -- Thousands of supporters of populist Iraqi…

China rushes to build new 1,000-bed hospital for coronavirus patients within 10 days

  BEIJING, China (AFP) -- China is rushing to build a new hospital in a staggering 10 days to treat…

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