Health
China Health Expert Defends Delay in Confirming Covid’s Threat – BloombergQuint
China Health Expert Defends Delay in Confirming Covid’s Threat

(Bloomberg) — One of Chinas top scientists defended the countrys delays in raising a global alarm in the early days of the coronavirus outbreak, saying officials were initially unsure whether the pathogen was infectious among humans because close contacts of the first patients didnt appear to fall sick.
In the first days of 2020, after the mysterious pneumonia cluster emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, Chinese experts quarantined 700 close contacts of the first patients — including…
-
Business15 hours ago
Battle of the ASX ETFs: Why has VGS outperformed VTS this year?
-
Business11 hours ago
1 ASX dividend stock down 43% I’d buy right now
-
General21 hours ago
Coalition abandons ‘end’ to work from home, walks back 41,000 job cuts
-
Noosa News11 hours ago
Banana farmers still salvaging fruit four weeks after ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred