China on Tuesday reported no new coronavirus deaths in the past day, for the first time since January 19, as the city of Wuhan prepared to lift its last lockdown measures, dpa reported.
There were also no new locally transmitted infections in Hubei (...)
Mainland China reported 30 new coronavirus cases today, up from 19 a day earlier as the number of cases involving travellers from abroad as well as local transmissions increased.
The National Health Commission said in a statement that 25 of the (...)
China on Saturday mourned the thousands of "martyrs" who have died in the new coronavirus outbreak, flying the national flag at half-mast throughout the country and suspending all forms of entertainment.
The day of mourning coincided with the start (...)
Asian stocks were mixed Thursday, AP reported.
Tokyo's Nikkei 225 lost 1.4% to 17,818.72, while Hong Kong recovered from losses, gaining 0.4% to 23,178.08. The Shanghai Composite Index gained to 2,761.50. The Kospi in Seoul rose to 1,725.64, while (...)
A forest fire that is threatening an LPG storage site and two petrol stations has killed 19 people, including 18 firefighters, in southwest China's Sichuan province, state news agency Xinhua and city officials reported on Tuesday.
The fire started (...)
Asian stocks were mixed Thursday, AP reported.
Tokyo's Nikkei 225 fell 4.5% to 18,664.60 and the Shanghai Composite Index dropped 0.6% to 2,765.66. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong declined 0.9% to 23,313.16.
The Kospi in Seoul lost 0.9% to 1,688.12 and (...)
Asian stock markets gained Tuesday, AP reported.
The Nikkei 225 in Tokyo rose 5.9% to 17,884.57 and Seoul's Kospi gained 5.9% to 1,571.00. The Shanghai Composite Index rose 1.1% to 2,688.40.
The Hang Seng in Hong Kong was 3.8% higher at 22,513.57 (...)
Outbound travel restrictions that have been in place since January in China's Hubei province, the epicentre of the new coronavirus outbreak, will finally be lifted, the provincial government announced on Tuesday, according to dpa.
"From midnight on (...)
China on Monday reported a drop in its daily tally of new coronavirus cases, reversing four straight days of increases, as the capital, Beijing, ramped up measures to contain the number of infections arriving from abroad, Reuters reported.
China had (...)
China has reported 46 novel coronavirus infections and 6 new deaths over the past day.
It has reported that only one new locally transmitted coronavirus infection and 45 infections came from abroad, adding that 504 infected patients have recovered (...)
China has reported no new cases of coronavirus in Hubei, the original epicentre of the outbreak, and zero locally
transmitted cases across China over the past day, for the first time in the past eight weeks, according to dpa.
The National Health (...)
Major Asian stock markets rose on Wednesday, AP reported.
The Shanghai Composite Index rose 1.3% to 2,814.70 and the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo gained 1.9% to 17,342.71. Hong Kong's Hang Seng added 0.5% to 23,384.51. The Kospi in Seoul gained 0.5% to (...)
China has reported only one new locally transmitted coronavirus infection and 11 new deaths over the past day, dpa reported.
Twelve more infections were "imported" cases, of travellers entering China from abroad, according to the National Health (...)
Asian stock markets fell Monday, AP reported.
The Shanghai Composite Index declined to 2,818.94 and the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo sank to 17,002.04. The Kospi in Seoul lost 2.1% to 1,733.64. In Sydney, the S&P-ASX 200 fell to 5,002.00. Hong Kong's Hang (...)
China has reported 16 new coronavirus infections and 14 new deaths over the past day, dpa reported.
The latest numbers add up to a total of 80,860 infections across mainland China including 3,213 deaths, according to the National Health (...)
Newly released economic indicators show a dramatic decline in China's economy amid the coronavirus outbreak, according to dpa.
Industrial production, a gauge of manufacturing, mining and utilities activity, dropped 13.5 per cent in January and (...)
China reported 20 new coronavirus cases and 10 new Covid-19 deaths on Sunday, according to the latest figures released by the National Health Commission (NHC). The deaths from Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new virus, were all (...)
Asian stock markets were mixed Tuesday, AP reported.
China's main stock index rose 1.7% and Tokyo advanced 0.9%. Hong Kong advanced 1.9% and Sydney gained 3.1%.
Shanghai Composite Index rose to 2,994.03 and the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo advanced to (...)
Asian stock markets plunged Monday, AP reported.
Tokyo's benchmark tumbled 6.2%, while Sydney fell 6.1%. Seoul sank 4.4% and Hong Kong lost 3.9%.
Tokyo's Nikkei 225 fell to 19,473.07 after the government reported the economy contracted 7.1% in the (...)
China reported 40 new cases of infection with the new coronavirus and 22 more deaths on Monday, according to the latest
statistics released by the National Health Commission.
This brought the total deaths in China from the outbreak, which began in (...)
Four people have died and another person's life was hanging in the balance on Sunday after a hotel collapsed in the coastal city of Quanzhou in south-eastern China's Fujian province, Chinese state media reported, according to dpa.
Xinjia Hotel in (...)
China has reported a slowdown in new coronavirus infections over the past day, while new cases in South Korea spiked, health authorities said Tuesday, according to dpa.
China's National Health Commission counted 125 new coronavirus cases in the past (...)
China reported 202 new coronavirus infections and 42 deaths over the past day, bringing up the total number of cases of the novel coronavirus in China to 80,026, authorities said Monday, according to dpa.
Meanwhile, South Korea saw another spike in (...)
Share prices in Asia bounced back Monday from last week's retreat, with mainland Chinese indexes gaining more than 3% as data showed progress in restoring factory output after weeks of disruptions from the viral outbreak, AP reported.
Japan's Nikkei (...)
Australia reported its first coronavirus fatality on Sunday, as infections soared beyond 3,500 in South Korea and deaths in China inched closer to 3,000, dpa reported.
Western Australia's Chief Health Officer Andrew Robertson confirmed the (...)
