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US plans to impose new curbs on China and Huawei
Feb 05, 2020 05:56Senior officials in the administration of US President Donald Trump plan to meet this month to discuss further curbing technology exports to Huawei and other Chinese companies, and to coordinate the broader US war with China over technological dominance.
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Envoy thanks Iran’s Zarif for voicing support for China
Feb 05, 2020 03:59Chinese Ambassador to Iran Chang Hua expressed his gratitude to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for supporting the East Asian country amid the deadly outbreak of a new coronavirus.
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Fears of global economic slowdown as virus follows trade war
Feb 04, 2020 18:41Zhang Ming, an economist at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (part of Beijing’s State Council), predicted that China’s annual growth rate could drop below an annualized five percent in the January-March 2020 quarter. That would be a sharp slowdown compared with six percent annualized growth in the previous quarter.
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Iran sends flight to Wuhan, reaffirms support for China
Feb 04, 2020 11:47Iran has sent a plane to retrieve dozens of students confined in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of a coronavirus outbreak.
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Iran lauds China's 'successful' fight against coronavirus, slams US exploitation of epidemic
Feb 04, 2020 08:41Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has praised China for taking “successful” measures to contain the deadly coronavirus outbreak, slamming the United States for attempting to exploit the health crisis caused by the pandemic.
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China virus death toll posts grim record rise, passes 400
Feb 04, 2020 05:38China said it would welcome assistance from the United States to fight a coronavirus outbreak, a day after it accused Washington of scaremongering, and as the death toll rose on Tuesday by a new daily record to more than 420.
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Coronavirus: All you need to know about symptoms and risks
Feb 03, 2020 13:17A novel coronavirus, identified by Chinese authorities on January 7 and named 2019-nCoV, is a new strain that had not been previously identified in humans. Little is known about it, although human-to-human transmission has been confirmed. According to the WHO, signs of infection include fever, cough, shortness of breath and breathing difficulties. In more severe cases, it can lead to pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome, kidney failure and even death.
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China opens new hospital amid ongoing intl. contingency plans
Feb 03, 2020 11:24China has finished the construction of an emergency hospital in just eight days in Wuhan, the city at the center of the new Coronovirus outbreak as the epidemic continues to claim more lives and infect more people across the country and beyond its borders.
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China says coronavirus death toll rises to 361, confirmed cases 17,205
Feb 03, 2020 11:17The total number of deaths from a coronavirus epidemic in China rose to 361 as of Sunday, up 57 from the previous day, the National Health Commission said.
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Thailand sees apparent success treating virus with drug cocktail
Feb 03, 2020 11:08A Chinese woman infected with the new coronavirus showed a dramatic improvement after she was treated with a cocktail of anti-virals used to treat flu and HIV, Thailand's health ministry said Sunday.