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Wary of irking China, Trump offers rosy take on virus threat
President Donald Trump had plenty to talk about during his latest big campaign rally, regaling a friendly crowd in New Jersey with his thoughts about impeachment, the economy, the border wall, local politics and much more.
China postpone all domestic football matches for coronavirus control
The Chinese Football Association (CFA) announced on Thursday that all the domestic matches of the 2020 season will be postponed for the better control of the novel coronavirus outbreak.
More airlines drop flights to China as virus spreads
British Airways halted all flights to China and American Airlines suspended Los Angeles flights to and from Shanghai and Beijing as efforts to contain a new virus intensifies.
China virus death toll rises to 170, transmission a concern
The death toll rose to 170 in the new virus outbreak in China on Thursday as foreign evacuees from the worst-hit region begin returning home under close observation and world health officials expressed "great concern" that the disease is starting to spread between people outside of China.
Health experts: Human-to-human spread of new virus worrying
World health officials, back from a visit to Beijing, expressed great concern Wednesday that a dangerous new virus is spreading between people outside of China, even as the number of illnesses continue to grow dramatically inside that Asian nation.
Virus cases in China top SARS as evacuations begin
Countries began evacuating their citizens Wednesday from the Chinese city hardest-hit by a new virus that has now infected more people in China than were sickened in the country by SARS.
Japanese evacuation flight brings back workers from Wuhan
The first group of Japanese evacuees from a virus-hit Chinese city arrived in Tokyo on Wednesday, a dozen of them with cough and fever including two who were later diagnosed with pneumonia.
35 Chinese workers of Padma Bridge project under observation: Quader
In the wake of coronavirus outbreak in China, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said 35 Chinese citizens working under the Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project have been kept under close observation.
Cases of new virus in China top its total for SARS
China, with 5,974 cases of a new virus, has more infections than it did in with SARS, though the death toll is still lower. China had 5,327 cases of SARS in the 2002-2003 outbreak.
Kazakhstan suspends travel links with China
Kazakhstan has suspended all flights, train and bus services to neighboring China and stopped issuing visas to Chinese nationals due to the outbreak of a new virus.