President Xi Jinping has called on community workers to continue their steadfast efforts to combat COVID-19 as communities remain an important line of defense against imported cases and a rebound of the outbreak in China.

The fresh figure reached 90,057 as of 12:25 p.m. (1625 GMT).

The pandemic is fuelling deplorable racism and discrimination, especially against Asian people. Education and research will also pay the price.

Will the lifting of the lockdown in Wuhan, a city hit hardest in the country by the COVID-19 pandemic，give way to a second wave of the outbreak that had engulfed the city for the last three months?

In the past week over 50 doctors in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province, voluntarily hosted 14 live broadcasts to relay anti-epidemic experience with overseas netizens.

Chinese experts built a special nucleic acid detection laboratory in two weeks as part of efforts to improve the region’s currently insufficient testing capability.

His simple but powerful dance moves won plaudits from netizens around the country, who may be surprised to learn he is not a dancer, but an ordinary frontline worker.