Coronavirus in China

(File) The Chinese national flag is hoisted during the closing ceremony of the 2018 Asian Games at the Gelora Bung Karno main stadium in Jakarta on September 2, 2018. Photo: AFP
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20 July 2022
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Cities across China are rolling out waste management measures to curb the huge amounts of garbage produced in the country (AFP/File Photo / HECTOR RETAMAL)
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01 May 2020
China's capital clamps down on single-use...
China's capital is clamping down on single-use items such as plastic cutlery and...
China has faced criticism over its handling of the outbreak (AFP Photo/Hector RETAMAL)
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28 April 2020
Three Beijing activists missing after preserving...
Three Beijing-based internet activists have disappeared and are believed to be detained...
Rulebreakers will be slapped with fines for offences including not wearing a mask in public when ill (AFP Photo/GREG BAKER)
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27 April 2020
Beijing bans 'uncivilised' behaviour to...
Beijing has banned "uncivilised" behaviour such as not covering the mouth and nose when...
The existence of the lab has fuelled conspiracy theories that the germ spread from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, specifically its P4 laboratory (AFP Photo/ Hector RETAMAL)
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20 April 2020
Director of Wuhan lab denies virus link
The director of a maximum-security laboratory in China's coronavirus ground-zero city of...
Men stand on a bridge over the Yangtze River in Wuhan on March 30 after travel restrictions into the city were eased following more than two months of lockdown (AFP Photo/File / Hector RETAMAL)
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02 April 2020
China lockdown may have blocked 700,000 virus...
China's decision to lock down the city of Wuhan, ground zero for the global COVID-19...
China has banned foreigners from entering the country in a bid to halt a second wave of coronavirus infections (AFP Photo/Hector RETAMAL)
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28 March 2020
Asia virus latest: China bans foreigners, markets...
Here are the latest developments in Asia related to the novel coronavirus pandemic:
China has not reported any new domestic COVID-19 infections for two consecutive days but officials have raised concerns about the number of imported cases (AFP PHOTO/ NOEL CELIS)
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27 March 2020
China cuts international flights, bars foreign...
China will drastically cut its international flight routes and bar entry to returning...
Workers have lunch while sitting 1.5 meters away from others at the joint-venture Dongfeng Honda in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, 23 March 2020. Photo: EPA
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25 March 2020
Hubei lifts restrictions as China reports no new...
China lifted tough restrictions on the province at the epicentre of the coronavirus...
This photo taken on March 16, 2020 shows a pile of shared bicycles set up as a makeshift barrier beside a temperature checking station at the entrance of a residential community in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province. Photo: AFP
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24 March 2020
China's imported virus cases spike as fears...
China reported 78 new cases of the deadly coronavirus on Tuesday, with the vast majority...
A volunteer operates a remote controlled disinfection robot to disinfect a residental area amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on March 16, 2020. Photo: AFP
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23 March 2020
China reports no domestic virus cases as imported...
China reported no new local cases of the deadly coronavirus on Monday but confirmed...
A woman wearing a mask walks past a road blockade made mostly of shared bicycles on a street in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China. Photo: EPA
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21 March 2020
China reports no new local virus cases for third...
China reported no new local cases of the deadly coronavirus for a third consecutive day...

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