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Coronavirus: Ninth case confirmed in UK as numbers drop in China
- Asia-Pacific
- February 12, 2020, 13:38
A ninth case of coronavirus has been confirmed in the UK, as the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned the outbreak “could still go in any direction”(...)

Fears Xi Jinping will use coronavirus crisis to tighten his grip on China
- Asia-Pacific
- February 11, 2020, 17:23
The coronavirus outbreak represents the single biggest challenge for Xi Jinping since he took the helm of the Communist Party eight years ago, but Chi(...)

Irish staff at Indeed told to work from home amid coronavirus concerns
- Technology
- February 10, 2020, 09:54
Employees at the Irish offices of online recruiter Indeed have been told to work from home this week due to concerns that a staff member may have been(...)

UK declares coronavirus a serious and imminent threat to public health
- UK
- February 10, 2020, 07:42
Britain on Monday said the number of confirmed coronavirus cases had doubled to eight as the government declared the virus a serious and imminent thre(...)

Deaths from Chinese coronavirus surpass Sars outbreak
- Asia-Pacific
- February 9, 2020, 09:54
China raised the death toll from the coronavirus epidemic to 811 on Sunday, passing the number killed globally by the Sars epidemic in 2002 and 2003. (...)

Coronavirus death toll reaches 780 with more than 36,000 cases
- Asia-Pacific
- February 8, 2020, 08:08
The number of deaths in China’s central Hubei province from a coronavirus outbreak had risen by 81 to 780 as of Saturday, the province’s health commis(...)

How China’s efforts to shape coronavirus story fuelled crisis
- Asia-Pacific
- February 7, 2020, 15:10
Disclosure is the best vaccine. This is a comment that has been popping up a lot online over the past two weeks in China as hundreds of millions rema(...)

World’s tech supply chain shaken by coronavirus
- Economy
- February 7, 2020, 01:00
On any normal morning thousands of workers stream in and out of the huge gates of Foxconn Zhengzhou Science Park, a 1.4 million square metre compound (...)

Living with coronavirus: ‘One couple said their sex life had never been better’
- Asia-Pacific
- February 6, 2020, 11:12
More than 14 million people call Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, home – but wandering around the desolate streets in recent days you’d be un(...)

Coronavirus: Third case in UK confirmed, cruise ship quarantined off Japan
- Asia-Pacific
- February 6, 2020, 08:34
Ten more people on a quarantined cruise liner in Japan have tested positive for coronavirus, officials said on Thursday, as health experts stepped up (...)