Source: Virus storytellers challenge China's official narrative
Yemen: World’s biggest humanitarian emergency nears breaking point – BBC News
Aid agencies are struggling to ensure millions of Yemenis receive food crucial to their survival.Source: Yemen: World's biggest humanitarian emergency nears breaking point - BBC News
Bio-warfare experts question why Canada was sending lethal viruses to China
In a table-top pandemic exercise at Johns Hopkins University last year, a pathogen based on the emerging Nipah virus was released by fictional extremists, killing 150 million people. A less apocalyptic scenario mapped out by a blue-ribbon U.S. panel envisioned Nipah being dispersed by terrorists and claiming over 6,000 American lives. Scientists from Canada’s National …
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‘Wartime Conditions’: China Plans Tougher Steps in Locked-Down Wuhan – The New York Times
As the death toll continues to surge and China moves to quarantine more people, a top official called for a house-to-house search for infected people in the city where the coronavirus outbreak began.Source: ‘Wartime Conditions’: China Plans Tougher Steps in Locked-Down Wuhan - The New York Times
5 million left Wuhan before lockdown | South China Morning Post
Health commission says battling the epidemic is becoming more complicated as scientists discover virus is infectious even during its incubation period. Source: 5 million left Wuhan before lockdown, 1,000 new coronavirus cases expected in city | South China Morning Post
Locked down against coronavirus in Shanghai – ABC Radio
Outside the virus epicentre of Wuhan and Hubei province, how serious is the impact and what's the extent of the lockdowns? Source: Locked down against coronavirus in Shanghai: but how to get the groceries? - PM - ABC Radio
Information concerning coronavirus spread in Xinjiang is ‘state secret’: official
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Information about the novel coronavirus (nCoV) and how it has spread in northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) is a "state secret" and cannot be shared with the public, according to a government employee in the region's capital Urumqi. On …
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Coronavirus: Chinese targeted as Italians panic – BBC News
Italy's leaders condemn a series of incidents affecting Chinese students and tourists.Source: Coronavirus: Chinese targeted as Italians panic - BBC News
2.6 million needs humanitarian aid: CAR
More than half the population in the Central African Republic -- around 2.6 million people -- needs humanitarian aid and more than one million are in an extremely vulnerable situation, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Central African Republic is still struggling after a conflict that forced halfSource: Half C.Africa population needs humanitarian aid: UN
Sepsis played a direct role in the deaths of 11 million people in 2017?
Sepsis played a direct role in the deaths of 11 million people in 2017, almost twice as many as previously estimated, according to a study published Thursday. Sepsis occurs when a person's organs cease to function properly as the result of an out-of-control immune response to infection. Some 85Source: Sepsis linked to 1-in-5 deaths worldwide: …
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