As countries worldwide mark the 2020 World Health Day amid a raging COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese President Xi Jinping's remarks on global public health have become particularly meaningful.

On Jan 23, the authorities in Wuhan announced the lockdown of the city. All public transportation and businesses were suspended, and residents were required to stay indoors to cut transmission in neighborhoods.

A civilized society must have its bottom line, and that’s why there’s no time to delay uprooting racism from the earth.

The fresh figure reached 80,759, as the global total confirmed cases reached 1,407,123.

Dong Ensheng and Du Hongru, both first-year graduate students in civil and systems engineering at the Johns Hopkins University, were behind the mapping of the latest information on COVID-19.

Amid the global pneumonia outbreak, many countries have ordered medical supplies from China, some even sending airplanes to pick up the goods from the country, a way considered faster and safer.

As of 10 a.m. on March 13, the platform attracted over 125 million visits, with 48,581 doctors offering consultation services for 1.6 million people.