Li Zehua: Journalist who 'disappeared' after Wuhan chase reappears
A Chinese journalist who was chased and then detained in Wuhan - the centre of the country's virus outbreak - has reappeared after almost two months.
Li Zehua broadcast the chase and his detention by police on 26 February, and had not been seen publicly since.
On Wednesday he published a video saying he spent two weeks in "quarantine" in Wuhan, followed by more quarantine in his home town.
He was told the quarantine was needed as he'd been to "sensitive areas".
China coronavirus cases may have been four times official figure, says study
More than 232,000 could have been infected in first wave, compared with then-official total of 55,000, as US envoy calls for rethink of US-China relationshipMore than 232,000 people may have been infected in the first wave of Covid-19 in mainland China, four times the official figures, according to a study by Hong Kong researchers.
Mainland China reported more than 55,000 cases as of 20 February but, according to research by academics at Hong Kong University’s school of public health published in the Lancet, the true number would have been far greater if the definition of a Covid-19 case that was later used had been applied from the outset.
China has now reported more than 83,000 cases. Globally, the death toll from the coronavirus has exceeded 183,000, with the number of cases worldwide standing at more than 2.6 million.
Trump calls on CDC director to denounce 'fake news' – who admits paper's quotes were accurate
'There will be coronavirus in the fall,' Anthony Fauci says as mixed messages from White House continue in latest chaotic briefingJohn T BennettWashington
Donald Trump brought his Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director to a White House briefing to clean up his own warning in a news report about another coronavirus wave coinciding with the flu next fall – but Robert Redfield said he was quoted accurately. The latest White House Covid-19 press conference got wild even faster than usual.
The president's face grew red and he gestured wildly in the opening minutes of his Wednesday evening briefing, snapping at reporters and even accusing media outlets of being unhappy when the federal government ramped up production of ventilators, the breathing machines needed to treat coronavirus patients. "Who was upset about ventilators," one exasperated reporter could be heard asking the president.
Syria's intelligence apparatus on trial in Germany
For the first time anywhere, Syrian intelligence officers are facing trial — in Germany. The court aims to probe the defendant's alleged crimes as well as cast light on Bashar Assad's system of torture and oppression.
It's going to be tough in Koblenz at the city's Higher Regional Court, located close to the majestic Rhine River. So very, very far away from the horrors of Syrian torture chambers. It's going to be tough for the handful of observers, who, despite restrictions linked with the coronavirus crisis, manage to occupy one of the few seats available in the courtroom.Italy launches antibody tests for virus immunity in hard-hit Lombardy
Italy began conducting antibody tests in one northern region on Thursday seeking information about coronavirus immunity to help guide authorities as they reopen the long locked-down country.
Lombardy, the region hardest-hit by the coronavirus crisis in Europe's worst-affected country, is betting that the science about "herd immunity" derived from the blood tests will help the prosperous industrial region return to work faster and safer.
Nearly 13,000 people have already died of the virus in densely populated Lombardy, whose capital is Milan -- or more than half of Italy’s total dead.
AS TRUMP URGES DOCTORS TO LIE ON LIVE TV, FEDERAL OFFICIAL SAYS HE WAS FIRED FOR LIMITING HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE USERobert Mackey, Sharon Lerner
DONALD TRUMP TRIED and failed on Wednesday to coerce two of the government’s top medical experts to endorse his claim that a second wave of Covid-19 infections in the fall is unlikely, hours after a federal whistleblower said he was fired by the administration for limiting the use of an unproven drug treatment touted by the president.
During a televised briefing on the Covid-19 pandemic, the president publicly displayed the political pressure he puts on government scientists by badgering Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, to agree with his rosy projection that the virus “might not come back at all.”
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