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The death toll from the novel coronavirus outbreak surged past 1,000 in China on Tuesday as the World Health Organization warned that the epidemic poses a "very grave" global threat.Chinese authorities have locked down millions of people in a numb

Measures to stop the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak are reducing the number of seaborne vessels and threatening to disrupt global supply chains.

Only 10% of workers at two Foxconn plants in China have returned to work following extended Lunar New Year holiday.

Workers at crematoriums in Wuhan City, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, say that their workload has increased ...

A Chinese billionaire and whistleblower who lives in U.S. exile says Wuhan crematoriums working 24x7 have burned 50,000 coronavirus victims.

An official in Shanghai confirmed the virus also travelled through aerosol transmission, which means it can float a long distance through the air and cause infection later when it is breathed in.

As people across China mourned the death of a whistleblower doctor in an almost unprecedented outpouring of grief and anger on Thursday, little did they know that another truth-teller of the coronavirus outbreak was being silenced. Chen Qiushi, a citizen

A Chinese teenager with cerebral palsy dies from neglect after his family is quarantined due to the Wuhan virus.

The American Embassy in Beijing said a 60-year-old US citizen diagnosed with the virus died in Wuhan on Wednesday, apparently the first American fatality of the outbreak.

Four big cities in Zhejiang, one of the country's most prosperous regions, are now at a standstill as Communist leaders struggle to contain the deadly outbreak.

There have been claims that a data leak by website Tencent shows that deaths due to coronavirus have crossed 24,000.

China's central bank will step up support for the economy to cushion the blow from a coronavirus outbreak, but activity is expected to recover once the virus is brought under control, one of its deputy governors said on Friday.'

A copper smelter in Southwest China has declared force majeure on deliveries of copper concentrate, two sources briefed on the matter said on Friday, as a coronavirus outbreak in the country heightened fears about a hit to demand.'

Most of those who died on Thursday were from Hubei — the epicenter of the outbreak.

China is providing the World Health Organization (WHO) with wrong information about the number of coronavirus cases in Taiwan, the island's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, after the WHO published incorrect case numbers earlier this week.'

China announced on Thursday that it will halve tariffs on $75 billion worth of US imports, as the world's two largest economies continue to step back from a years-long trade war that has hurt both countries and dented global growth. The move comes as

Tencent may have accidentally published what looks like the

There are claims Chinese doctors are cremating people from the virus, but failing to identify and record them.

Tencent briefly lists 154,023 infections and 24,589 deaths from Wuhan coronavirus

Tencent, the second largest company in China, may have inadvertently leaked the true extent of the coronavirus death toll as more than 24,000, more than 80 times higher than the official figure.