China is seeing positive signs on all fronts in its battle against the novel coronavirus, as domestic transmissions have "basically been stopped".

With the epidemic situation largely contained in China, many overseas Chinese students and citizens are looking to make the journey back home.

Virologists around the globe stressed that the real origin of the lethal virus remains unknown, name-calling may lead to further racial discrimination, dampening the impartial study of the virus.

The US government's response saw massive failures of judgment and inaction in January, February, and even March of this year.

A total of 1,002,159 people have been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus across the world, with a death toll of 51,485.

Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the World Health Organization (WHO) has made its contributions to the international epidemic prevention and control.