Wuhan doctor who worked with coronavirus whistleblower Li Wenliang died of the virus last week, state media reported Tuesday, becoming China’s first COVID-19 fatality in weeks. Hu Weifeng, a urologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, died on Friday after being treated for COVID-19 and allied issues for more than four months, state broadcaster CCTV said. He
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By: C. P. Anaso March 30, 2020. In the wake of the US-China cold war, soon after roundtable and trade deals toward the end of 2019, there emerged a health crisis which seemed internal to China but soon grew to become a subject of world health concern that would define the political and economic shape
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The death of a whistleblowing doctor who was reprimanded for warning about the new coronavirus has sparked rare calls for political reform and free speech in China. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist in Wuhan — ground zero of China’s virus epidemic which has killed more than 800 — succumbed to the disease Friday over a month
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The Coronavirus infection has risen to 17,205 from 14,380 confirmed cases while 361 persons had died from the disease, which originated from Wuhan in China. About 21,558 individuals were also suspected of being infected with the virus in the Chinese mainland. Giving an update on the epidemic in Abuja on Monday, the Chinese Ambassador to
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Seven airlines have announced that they are halting or reducing flights to China as the country struggles to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus. The airlines are Air France, British Airways, United Airlines, Lion Air, Finnair, Cathay Pacific and Urals Airlines Air France suspended its three weekly flights to Wuhan on January 24, but
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