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A currency trader talks on the phone at the foreign exchange trading room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. AP photo

China returns to business tomorrow after extended break over...

The usually week-long Lunar New Year holiday was extended by 10 days in much of China amid mounting alarm over an...

9 Feb 2020 2:12 PM IST

A nurse checks on a patient in the isolation ward for 2019-nCoV patients at a hospital in Wuhan in central Chinas Hubei province. The number of confirmed cases of the new virus has risen again in China. AP photo

Coronavirus deaths touch 811, but virus weakens

Warmer weather will reduce the ability of virus to spread and bring people out of enclosed spaces where they are more...

9 Feb 2020 11:38 AM IST

A security guard checks the temperature of people entering Yu Park in Shanghai. AFP photo

Coronavirus death toll hits 563, number of cases surpass 28,000

Among the deceased, 70 were from Hubei Province and its provincial Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus outbreak

6 Feb 2020 11:29 AM IST

The coronavirus is a family of viruses that can cause a range of illnesses in humans including common cold and more severe forms like SARS and MERS, which are life threatening.

China virus: A prelude to chem and bio warfare?

The declining populace of 130 million Russians are no match for China's upswinging economy of 1.4 billion people.

3 Feb 2020 1:32 AM IST

South Korean protesters stage a rally calling for a ban on Chinese people entering South Korea near the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea. AP photo

Coronavirus death toll crosses 300, triggers anti-China sentiment...

The anti-Chinese sentiment calls for a full travel ban on Chinese visitors and indignities for Chinese and other Asians

2 Feb 2020 4:07 PM IST

A woman wearing a protective mask walks outside a church in Mandaluyong, east of Manila, Philippines on Sunday. AP photo

Philippines reports first coronavirus death outside of China

South Korea and India flew hundreds of their citizens out of Wuhan. They went into a two-week quarantine

2 Feb 2020 3:50 PM IST

India's second coronavirus case confirmed in Kerala's Alappuzha

The patient's condition is stable and he is being closely monitored in isolation ward in the hospital

2 Feb 2020 11:28 AM IST

Medical personnel scan a new coronavirus patient at a hospital in Wuhan in central Chinas Hubei province. AFP photo

The term China virus is absolutely wrong, asserts Beijing

This was Beijing's efforts to combat a perceived global negative fallout on China's image due to the Coronavirus...

25 March 2020 10:05 PM IST

A municipal worker cleans the floor of a room to be used as an isolation ward for coronavirus asymptomatic people at an athletic stadium in Hyderabad, March 17, 2020. (AP)

The rising China virus threat: For India, a spell of self-isolation is...

India should never get involved wholeheartedly in the business of globalisation, which has turned out to be a bit of a...

17 March 2020 9:21 PM IST

US President Donald Trump. (AFP)

Coronavirus originated from China's Wuhan lab: Trump

The US president says he has evidence linking a Wuhan lab to the contagion

1 May 2020 10:37 AM IST

A doctor is seen wearing a facemask while looking at a lung CT image from a patient at a hospital in Wuhan. AFP Photo

First COVID-19 case could have hit China in October 2019: Study

The most likely date for the virus's emergence was November 17, 2019, and it had probably already spread globally by...

25 Jun 2021 10:12 AM IST

A man wearing a facemask and plastic gloves amid the concerns over the COVID-19 coronavirus uses an escalator at Beijing Capital International Airport. AFP photo

Fearing virus return, Beijing turns into virtual fortress

Between April 8 and April 13, some 1,037 people returned to Beijing from Wuhan. None tested positive for COVID-19

14 April 2020 9:26 AM IST