WUHAN, Nov 5 — A direct air route linking Wuhan and San Francisco resumed on Saturday, according to China Southern Airlines, the flight's operator.

BEIJING, Aug 3 —  The authorities in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the world's first COVID-19 hotbed, have decided to test the city's entire population of 11 million for the virus after several new cases were detected in the city, the local government said on Tuesday.

GENEVA, July 24 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) said Friday countries have the responsibility to work together, in partnership with WHO, so scientists can try to find the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic after China rejected a plan for the second phase of investigations.

GENEVA, March 30 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday released a report on the global tracing of Covid-19 origins, following joint research with China on issues including the pathways of the virus and future investigation in different countries.

MOSCOW, Feb 19 — World Health Organisation (WHO) experts investigating the pandemic’s origins suggest that ferret badgers and rabbits, which were sold at a Wuhan market in China, could have played a role in spreading the novel coronavirus to humans, reported Sputnik news agency.

SINGAPORE, Feb 11 — From a skyway operator in Australia to a tourist guide on Indonesia's resort island of Bali and a lion dance troupe in Malaysia, Asia's travel industry is hurting as coronavirus curbs keep most people home for the Lunar New Year.

WUHAN, Feb 9 — Members of a World Health Organization-led team looking for clues about the origins of Covid-19 will hold a briefing on Tuesday after nearly a month of meetings and site visits in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the disease was first identified.

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NEW YORK, May 21 — Global coronavirus cases surpassed 5 million on Wednesday, with Latin America overtaking the United States and Europe in the past week to report the largest portion of new daily cases globally.

BEIJING, May 19 — China reported six confirmed coronavirus cases for May 18, including a new case in Wuhan, the health authority said today, compared to seven a day earlier.

GENEVA, May 2 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday welcomed the news that there are no more hospitalised Covid-19 patients in Wuhan, China, praising its people's "tireless efforts" to combat the pandemic, reported Xinhua news agency.

BEIJING, April 26 — The number of hospitalized Covid-19 patients in Wuhan, the central China city hardest hit by the epidemic, has dropped to zero, a health official said Sunday, reported Xinhua News Agency.

PUTRAJAYA, April 22 — Difficulty in identifying tourists from Wuhan, China as well as issues regarding policy coordination with various parties, including airline companies and airport authorities, are among the challenges faced by the Immigration Department in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.

WUHAN, April 9 — The number of public transport passengers in coronavirus-hit Wuhan exceeded 620,000 on Wednesday, the day when the city's 76-day lockdown was lifted, reported Xinhua news agency.

WUHAN, April 8 — With long lines of cars streaming through expressway toll gates and passengers boarding trains, the megacity of Wuhan in central China started lifting outbound travel restrictions from Wednesday after almost 11 weeks of lockdown to stem the spread of Covid-19, reported Xinhua news agency.

HONG KONG, March 31 — The lockdown of Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, was effective in containing the Covid-19 spread during the early stages of the outbreak and significantly helped cut the infection rates in other places, a report recently published by a Hong Kong university said.

BEIJING, March 19 — The central Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the country's coronavirus outbreak, reported no new infections for the first time, while imported cases surged by a record, led by new infections in the capital of Beijing.

WUHAN, Feb 29 — Hubei Province, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, reported 423 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection and 45 new deaths on Friday, the provincial health commission said Saturday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 28 — On the Covid-19 front, it has been a relatively good week for Malaysia with only one new case reported.

SEPANG, Feb 26 — A total of 66 individuals, comprising 46 Malaysian citizens and 20 of their non-citizen family members, who arrived from Wuhan, China this morning, are being housed at the monitoring centre at the Higher Education Leadership Academy (AKEPT) in Nilai for the 14-day quarantine period.