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A pensioner in Wuhan has been spotted butchering a cat in broad daylight as the city is ravaged by the novel coronavirus, which is believed to have come from exotic animal meat. Chilling footage circulating on Chinese social media shows the man skinning the dead feline outside a restaurant. The video emerged as China today … Read more
Micro-fossil of one BILLION-year-old seaweed discovered in China could be an ancient relative of the earliest land plants and trees to evolve on Earth, study claims One billion-year-old fossil was found in China and is only 2mm long It is thought it is an ancestor of the earliest land plants and trees that evolved The fossils … Read more
Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. Over 2,600 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and more than 79,000 have been infected. But experts predict the true number of people with the disease could be as high as … Read more
Minister of the Chinese Embassy Wang Xining appeared on ABCs Q&A panel show on Monday night A Chinese embassy representative has been laughed at by a Q&A audience for describing prison camps as ‘training centres’. Minister of the Chinese Embassy Wang Xining appeared on ABCs Q&A panel on Monday night to defend his government’s reaction to … Read more
Seventeen-day-old baby girl recovers from coronavirus without medication after being born to a confirmed patient The baby is the youngest patient to have recovered from the virus in China She was allowed to go home on Friday after making a full recovery by herself Doctors didn’t give her antibiotic medication because her condition was minor … Read more
Tens of thousands of tourists swarm to scenic spots across China despite coronavirus outbreak after major attractions re-opened their doors Several major destinations were filled with visitors after they resumed business The Wugongshan National Park was so packed it had to turn away tourists today The West Lake in Hangzhou city was swamped by over … Read more
A virus expert from the World Health Organization said the coronavirus could be the ‘Disease X’ which experts have warned about. The name is given to a future disease which could break out among humans and wreak havoc across the world. The coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has infected around 80,000 people in the two months since it … Read more
China has warned its citizens not to travel to the United States due to the ‘excessive measures’ Washington has taken to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Chinese tourists have received unfair treatment repeatedly in America as a result, Beijing claimed today. The coronavirus epidemic has killed at least 2,626 people, infected more than 79,700 and … Read more
Hundreds of people have been filmed queuing up to buy face masks in the city at the centre of South Korea’s coronavirus outbreak. A long line of people snaked out the doors of a supermarket in the city of Daegu on Monday as people tried to protect themselves against the spread of the disease amid fears … Read more
China considers ‘complete ban’ on eating wild animals amid fears the practice sparked coronavirus outbreak Beijing today began discussing a proposal to ban the eating of wild animals Experts have linked the virus epidemic to the consumption of exotic species The measure aims at ‘safeguarding public health and ecological security’ The virus likely came from … Read more