On Monday, Hong Kong’s former health minister said face masks are largely ineffective in preventing transmission of the Chinese coronavirus, adding that he only wears them in public to be “polite,” Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported on Tuesday.
After weeks of being closed to the public, a restaurant in the Netherlands will start serving diners in enclosed glass greenhouses in order to prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.
There are increased calls for the British government to release the modelling upon which the national lockdown was based after it was revealed that its author, Professor Neil Ferguson, was found to have been flouting the social distancing rules in order to visit his left-wing activist married lover.
Nigel Farage struck a defiant tone after being informed by police that reporting on the illegal boat migrants was not “essential travel”, saying that he will continue “to cover this scandal” despite the police warnings and the criticism from the “sneerocracy” in the mainstream media.
The people of Great Britain will be told that to accelerate the end of the lockdown, millions will need to download a contact tracing app which raises concerns that the government will use the Chinese coronavirus crisis to usher in a massive surveillance state.
Zimbabweans have started to voice suspicion of the several coronavirus aid packages China has sent their country in recent weeks, accusing Beijing of using the aid to generate favorable publicity amid a global backlash against the country, Radio France Internationale (RFI) reported on Monday.
The Chinese government has resumed a job placement plan for tens of thousands of Uyghur Muslim “graduates” of compulsory “re-education” camps in China’s western region of Xinjiang, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Saturday, quoting sources with knowledge of the project.
The UK knew what was “really happening” in China yet failed to impose travel restrictions on people entering the country.
Medical doctors in Nigeria began a strike on Monday over a lackluster welfare package that included an “inadequate response” from the government to the increased health risks posed by the country’s worsening Chinese coronavirus outbreak, the nation’s Daily Trust reported.
Tanzanian President John Magufuli denounced imported coronavirus test kits as faulty after he said they returned positive results on samples taken from a goat and a pawpaw [papaya], Reuters reported on Sunday.
Russia’s new coronavirus cases increased by over 10,000 for the second straight day on Monday, the Moscow Times reported, cementing its status as a pandemic hotspot.
“When small acts of bravery are stamped out by governments, big acts of bravery follow,” Pottinger said.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) of the United Kingdom will begin reviewing every charge, conviction, and sentence that has been brought under emergency laws following reports that overzealous police have wrongfully charged people during the pandemic.
The Chinese coronavirus lockdown measures should be lifted for those over the age of 70 who are considered to be in good health, as the mental health implications are starting to outweigh the dangers of the virus, a group of medical professionals have informed Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed that in his battle with the Chinese coronavirus he received “litres and litres of oxygen” as his condition began to “deteriorate” — forcing doctors to begin planning for a “Death of Stalin-type scenario” if he perished.
Gordon Ramsay is said to have received a warning from the Coastguard in Cornwall, England, for repeated violations of the national lockdown measures meant to stem the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.
China could lose about $200 billion from poor infrastructure investments in Africa amid the economic downturn caused by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei reported on Friday.
Police arrested over 50 leftist activists in Manila on Friday for “illegal assembly” when they rallied en masse, violating coronavirus quarantine restrictions against large gatherings.
Citizens recorded officials in the Philippines beating a man with a stick and forcibly dragging him into a security vehicle allegedly for violating coronavirus quarantine measures by not wearing a sanitary mask, Philippine news outlet Coconuts Manila reported on Wednesday.
South Korea successfully held in-person elections this month without finding evidence for a single coronavirus transmission at an election station, South Korea’s Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) announced this week, the Epoch Times reported on Thursday.
Missionaries working with North Korean refugees hiding in China told Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Wednesday many are stuck there, facing the potential of being tortured and sent to prison camps if caught and returned home.
Medical students across Russia are being warned that they will face academic repercussions if they refuse to join the fight against the Chinese coronavirus, The Moscow Times revealed in a report Thursday.
The British government has announced that it will adopt a centralised approach to its planned contract tracing app, meaning that user data will be stored in government servers, sparking fears that the program could infringe upon privacy rights. On Tuesday,
Beijing’s embassy in New Delhi called India’s decision to stop using faulty Chinese-made coronavirus test kits an act of “prejudice” and “unfair” on Tuesday, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported this week.
An editorial published in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Global Times on Wednesday criticized the United States for allegedly having a higher number of coronavirus cases than China – a claim clouded by significant evidence that China’s official statistics are false.
Police in the United Kingdom issued more than 3,000 fines in the first two weeks of the national lockdown alone, the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster told the House of Commons. Michael Gove told Parliament that 3,203 fines were
Local authorities in Uganda are facing accusations of raiding an LGBT shelter based on the perceived sexual orientation or gender identity of the residents, then charging them for allegedly defying coronavirus regulations on physical distancing, AllAfrica reported on Monday. The
At least nine inmates died in Peru during a prison riot demanding better sanitary conditions to protect from the Chinese coronavirus, the country’s prison authority announced on Tuesday.
A top Russian doctor plunged 50 feet from her office window during a government conference call on Saturday after being told her hospital would have to take in Chinese coronavirus patients without the necessary personal protective equipment (PPE), according to local media reports.
Actor Tim Robbins could not contain his fury at plans from some states to re-open their economies amid the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, describing America as a “death cult” led by sociopaths and populated with “racist self-interested citizens” in a now-deleted tweet.
The British government will finally begin implementing mandatory 14-day quarantines for people entering the country, months after countries around the world enacted similar measures to prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.
Pakistani imams are reportedly urging worshippers to defy the Islamist government’s coronavirus lockdown and gather for communal prayers during Ramadan, an Islamic holy month which starts April 24 in Pakistan.
A government employee in the central Chinese province of Hubei – home to Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic in China – is suing the provincial government over its handling of the outbreak.
A Wuhan citizen journalist who went missing two months ago while reporting on the coronavirus reappeared on Wednesday and said he had been forcibly quarantined by police, the New York Post reported on Wednesday.
The Philippines says China demonstrated “hostile intent” when it pointed a radar gun at a Philippine navy ship in Philippine waters in February, Voice of America (VOA) reported on Wednesday.
For Muslims worldwide, today marks the start of Ramadan, an Islamic holy month of fasting and prayer. For ethnic Uyghur Muslims in northwestern China’s Xinjiang province, observance of Ramadan – banned by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) – could land
One of Indonesia’s largest labor groups says it will defy a police ban on staging May Day rallies in the capital enacted to curb the spread of the coronavirus, Indonesian news site Kumparan reported on Wednesday.
World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus posted a series of single-word messages to his Twitter account Tuesday evening, in a stream of consciousness thread without context and seemingly not connected to his other tweets.
Over 150 people reportedly died of a “strange ailment” in Kano, Nigeria, last week over a two-day period from April 17-18, the country’s Daily Trust newspaper reported on Tuesday. Nigeria has failed to confirm if the ailment was the Chinese coronavirus.
At least 40 staff members of “the Arg” – Afghanistan’s presidential palace in Kabul – have tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus, Afghanistan’s Khaama Press reported on Monday, citing the New York Times.
