South Korea aims to test more than 200,000 members of a church at the center of a surge in coronavirus cases, as countries stepped up efforts to stop a pandemic of the virus that emerged in China and is now spreading in Europe and the Middle East. More than 80,000 people have been infected in China since the outbreak began, apparently in an illegal wildlife market in the central city […]
Amid reports of infections nearing 75,000 the number of survivors is also growing with more than 14,000 reported. Chengdu, China - Scrambled eggs with tomatoes - that's the first dish coronavirus survivor Yangyang made for herself after being discharged from No 7 Hospital in Wuhan, in Hubei province - the epicentre of the outbreak in China. "This is the first time I thought eggs were so delicious," Yangyang wrote on […]
More than 43,000 people worldwide have been infected by the new coronavirus, which continues to spread to more countries since it was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December. At least 1,016 people have died so far in mainland China, as well as one person in Hong Kong and another in the Philippines. Almost all the fatalities in China have been in Hubei province, the capital of […]
A South African student trapped in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak is appealing for help from the government. Kamohelo Taole, a student at Hubei University in Wuhan, has called on the South African government to assist him get home. Taole says, “I’m terrified because I’m currently at the epicentre of this epidemic, the virus started at a local market not far from my university […]
After a week under quarantine in Wuhan, where China's new coronavirus emerged late last year, some of the city's thousands of international students are feeling isolated and anxious, with some hoping they can be evacuated. Four of an estimated 500 Pakistani students in the city have already been confirmed to have the virus, Pakistan's State Minister of Health Zafar Mirza said on Wednesday. Others, holed up in their dormitories, worry […]
China has stepped up its response to a new coronavirus outbreak that has killed 41 people and infected at least 1,287 in the mainland, ordering nationwide measures to detect the virus at transport terminals. Beijing has also expanded travel restrictions, affecting the movement of 56 million people in more than a dozen cities, amid fears that the transmission rate will accelerate as hundreds of millions of Chinese travel for the […]
The Embassy of China in Pretoria on Friday urged South Africans to avoid travelling to China’s central city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the current coronavirus epidemic which has so far killed at least 26 people. “Friends from South Africa are requested not to go to Wuhan for the time being, and South African friends in Wuhan now should not leave the city or return to SA at this moment,” […]
China has told the residents of Wuhan that they would no longer be allowed to leave, as authorities step up efforts to halt the spread of a new coronavirus that originated in the city in December and has now killed 17 people and infected 571. "Without a special reason, city residents should not leave Wuhan," the central city's special command centre to combat the virus said on Thursday, according to state […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
