All stories by K J M VARMA
China closes makeshift hospitals as virus cases plunge
Rediff.com9 Mar 2020The overall confirmed cases on the mainland reached 80,735 by the end of Sunday which included 3,119 people who have died so far.
10 killed as hotel used as quarantine facility collapses in China
Rediff.com8 Mar 2020Around 71 people were trapped in the hotel that collapsed on Saturday in Quanzhou city of the province. The hotel was used to quarantine and observe people who had come to the province during the novel coronavirus prevention and control and had come in contact with the virus patients.
Coronavirus: China reports 27 new deaths
Rediff.com8 Mar 2020All the 27 deaths occurred in the virus-hit central Hubei province, China's National Health Commission (NHC) said. The confirmed cases for the first time fell below 50 since COVID-19 surfaced in Hubei province in January.
China coronavirus toll crosses 3,000, cases mounts to over 80,400
Rediff.com5 Mar 2020Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for undiminished vigilance on the prevention and control work of the COVID-19 as the situation in the Wuhan City and Hubei Province remains severe
Global coronavirus deaths cross 3,000; spreads to over 70 countries
Rediff.com2 Mar 2020The deadly coronavirus is wreaking havoc globally, killing over 50 people in Iran, 34 in Italy and 22 in South Korea.
China coronavirus toll climbs to over 2,700
Rediff.com26 Feb 2020The country's National Health Commission in its daily update said it received reports of 52 deaths, all from Hubei, and 406 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus infection from all over the country.
Wuhan revokes order to ease lockdown within hrs; toll nears 3,000
Rediff.com24 Feb 2020The Wuhan local administration earlier announced that people who are not quarantined and seeking special treatment or stranded in the city can leave in batches.
Coronavirus-hit China postpones annual Parliament session for 1st time in decades
Rediff.com24 Feb 2020The death toll climbed to 2,592 with 150 new fatalities while the total number of confirmed cases increased to over 77,000, health officials said on Monday.
Coronavirus is China's biggest health emergency, says Xi
Rediff.com24 Feb 2020President Xi, who attended a meeting in Beijing to double efforts in coordinating the prevention and control of the COVID-19 outbreak, said the epidemic 'has the fastest transmission, widest range of infection and has been the most difficult to prevent and control'.
China's coronavirus death toll crosses 2300, WHO team to visit Wuhan
Rediff.com22 Feb 2020Besides controlling the spread of the virus, a major task of the WHO team along with their Chinese counterparts was to come up with a standard medicine to cure the disease.
Death toll in China's coronavirus jumps to 2,236
Rediff.com21 Feb 2020The overall confirmed infection cases have climbed to 75,465, Chinese health officials said on Friday.
China objects to Amit Shah's visit to Arunachal
Rediff.com21 Feb 2020Shah is in Arunachal Pradesh to attend the 34th Statehood Day function and launch a number of projects related to industry and roads, officials said.
Miffed over article, China expels 3 WSJ scribes
Rediff.com19 Feb 2020China on Wednesday expelled three Wall Street Journal correspondents, the largest expulsion of overseas media personnel from the country in more than three decades, after the newspaper declined to apologise for a column which Beijing criticised as "racist" and tarnishing its efforts to combat the deadly coronavirus epidemic. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said China made repeated representations to the US newspaper over the opinion piece which had the headline: 'China is the real sick man of Asia', but regretted that it had not offered a public apology.
Death toll from China coronavirus surges past 2,000
Rediff.com19 Feb 2020The commission added that 11,977 patients remained in severe condition, and 5,248 people were suspected of being infected with the virus, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Sr doctor dies of coronavirus in China, death toll passes 1800
Rediff.com18 Feb 2020Monday also saw the new confirmed infections of COVID-19 outside Hubei reduced to a number lower than 100 for the first time, Mi told the media..
China virus toll rises to 1,770; cases up to 70,500
Rediff.com17 Feb 2020WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said international experts were now on the ground in China to understand the outbreak and inform the next steps in the global response.
China coronavirus: 254 new deaths, nearly 15K fresh cases
Rediff.com13 Feb 2020The total deaths from the more than two-month-old outbreak as reported on Thursday stood at 1,367, with the total number of confirmed cases mounting to 59,804, health officials were quoted as saying by the state-run Xinhua news agency.
China's coronavirus kills 1,113; cases jump to 44,000
Rediff.com12 Feb 2020The overall confirmed cases on the Chinese mainland has reached 44,653 by the end of Tuesday and 1,113 people has died of the disease.
Coronavirus death toll in China crosses 1,000
Rediff.com11 Feb 2020The death toll due to nCoV rose to 1,016 and the confirmed cases have gone up to 42,638, according to the commission.
Coronavirus death toll soars to 908; WHO sends team to China
Rediff.com10 Feb 2020The head of the World Health Organisation said on Saturday that the UN health agency would send an international mission to China as it received a response from Beijing.