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Xi Jinping Coronavirus ChinaREUTERS/Aly SongUK government officials say there'll be "reckoning" for China over its handling of the coronavirus.Boris Johnson's government is reportedly furious with the Chinese state.It has accused of China of spreading disinformation and lying about the number of cases it has.Scientists have reportedly warned Johnson that China…

LONDON -- Deaths surged in Italy and Spain on Friday, troubling new outbreak sites bubbled in the United States, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson became the first leader of a major country to test positive for the coronavirus that has sickened more than a half-million people worldwide. Italy recorded…

A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now killed over 27,300 people around the world. Globally there are more than 595,000 diagnosed cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and some top aides have repeatedly excoriated China over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, a stance that even some in his administration worry could bring a dangerous backlash from Beijing. While Trump himself softened his tone after a week of blaming what…

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As the coronavirus has spread around the world, people have looked to data — case counts, death tolls, tallies of people tested — to help predict the outbreak's trajectory, plan responses, and make policy decisions.Because China was initially secretive during the SARS outbreak and censored some whistleblowers and citizen journalists as…

By Jeff Mason, Matt Spetalnick and Alexandra AlperWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday ratcheted up his rhetoric against China over the coronavirus, saying Beijing should have acted faster to warn the world and dismissing criticism that his labeling it the "Chinese virus" was racist.Trump's tougher language marked…

President Donald Trump sent a xenophobic tweet Monday evening, noting that he plans to bail out airlines and other industries “that are particularly affected by the Chinese Virus.” Only a few hours earlier, Trump held a White House news conference on the emerging coronavirus outbreak and was praised for finally…

As the number of coronavirus cases outside China passes the number of cases inside that country, Beijing is trying to recast itself from the source of the global pandemic to the world’s savior. Its latest gambit: sending testing kits and masks to the U.S. Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of…

A general view of empty streets in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, in a Feb. 7, 2020, file photo. Stringer/Getty Images On the second floor of a residential building in northwest Wuhan, John Zhu has made his home a fortress against the virus. His wife and 13-year-old son have not stepped…