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Chinese students wear protective suits to safeguard against the novel coronavirus at the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, in April, 2020, before boarding a flight to China.
Believing the coronavirus curve has flattened, many European nations are relaxing related control measures, while the United States is yet to face its darkest moment amid economic fallout and with top officials placed in self-quarantine over COVID-19 exposure.
When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on Jan. 30, many might not have expected it to turn into the worst public health crisis in a century.
As the sun rose over the mountains, the village of Yaragiz woke up for a busy day. It was the day that some 90 families were due to undergo their annual health check-up.
The number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States topped 70,000 on Tuesday, representing over a quarter of all the virus deaths reported worldwide, as Americans give negative marks for the federal government's handling of the outbreak.
Italy on Tuesday maintained a declining trend in active COVID-19 infections and intensive care cases, one day after it eased the national lockdown, according to the latest numbers released by the Civil Protection Department.
For 27-year-old Wu Xianbing, his delayed wedding was well worth the wait－especially as his bride Chen Mei had made such a deep personal sacrifice to save the lives of others.
Dr Joseph Wong has made it his purpose to get masks to the people on the front lines of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
April 29 marks the International Guide Dog Day, which honors the importance of guide dogs in the lives of visually impaired people as it helps them navigate the world safely and independently.
The world is suffering from a shortage of vital medical equipment for the fight against the pandemic, including respiratory ventilators," Summaya Faruqi, 17, the team captain told Xinhua recently.
Chinese travellers are embracing a five-day International Labor Day holiday with caution although the coronavirus epidemic wanes.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the global response to it have severely limited public celebration of this year's World Book Day but online activities are still underway to promote the power of reading which the United Nations believes should be leveraged more than ever at a time of lockdown, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) told Xinhua on Wednesday.
Online medical care, entertainment, education and e-commerce creating several new employment opportunities
Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, the world will mark Earth Day on Wednesday, reminding people of the many challenges facing humanity such as climate change, desertification and pollution.
After recovering from the novel coronavirus, Xu Ming, a 95-year-old resident of Wuhan, Hubei province, said he now looks forward to living to 100. But when he was sent to the intensive care unit in mid-February, he had lower expectations, hoping just to make it back to the general ward.
Under the severe epidemic situation in Italy, the Chinese community in Prato, the second-largest city in the Tuscany region, has maintained a record of "zero COVID-19 infection."
She said those would likely be the first to see a lifting in social distancing restrictions at the direction of their governors under the guidelines set to be released Thursday.
When Wuhan reopened after coronavirus lockdown on April 8, Siyi, a Wuhan native who is now living in Singapore, posted her memories of the city in her WeChat moments. Photos of the Yangtze River Bridge, East Lake Cherry Blossom Park and Wuchang River Beach, all took her back to the land that she has not set foot on for 20 years.
When Wuhan reopened after coronavirus lockdown on April 8, Siyi, a Wuhan native who is now living in Singapore, posted her memories of the city in her WeChat moments. Photos of the Yangtze River Bridge, East Lake Cherry Blossom Park and Wuchang River Beach, all took her back to the land that she has not set foot on for 20 years.
This March was the busiest ever month for Li Qiang, 35, a geography teacher at an online education platform. He is good at explaining difficult points to his students using common tools. Li's classes that are livestreamed tend to attract capacity audiences as students from across China hook up.
The Chinese embassy in London has provided students with health packs, which include medical kits and a guidebook on the pandemic. Fu has applied for a pack online.
As an expert in artificial intelligence, Huang, senior researcher at Vrije University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has established a group of volunteers, including psychological counselors and medical AI experts, to support critically ill patients who post messages online asking for help.
The Chinese Cultural Center in Cairo has launched an online competition to raise awareness among Egyptians to combat the novel coronavirus, which has posed a major challenge to the entire world.
From the Meuse River to the Dinaric Alps, from Rica to Piraeus, increasing numbers of Chinese enterprises and residents stand side by side with local authorities and frontline health workers in Europe to help attenuate the sanitary shockwave in their second homeland, now the epicenter of the pandemic.
"Over the past 50 days, unforgettable stories occured every 24 hours," said a teary Jiao Yahui while recalling the novel coronavirus battle in Wuhan, Hubei Province.
To work or not to work? That was a question for Memettursun Nurdun. After stepping down as village chief, he idled in his remote village in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region for years, until he took the carpenter job two months ago.
Nearly 10 hours after landing at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Saturday, a woman from the city, surnamed Wang, as well as her daughter and 2-month-old grandson, finally arrived at a park in Changning district, where her home is also located.
Tian Jun, head of medical affairs at a quarantine hotel in Shanghai, has a heavy workload. His main job is to observe all the guests' health status, but he also helps deliver food ordered online to rooms if they want an alternative to meals provided by the hotel, collects trash from the rooms and assists with a range of other duties.
BRUSSLES/ROME, March 24 (Xinhua) -- The coronavirus continued to sweep across Europe, with the combined number of confirmed cases on the continent exceeding 200,000 as of Tuesday evening, accounting for half of known cases worldwide.
Tables were set. Food was ready to be served. For eateries across China, there was only one problem: the diners weren't coming.
