An Iranian airline fuelled the Middle East’s coronavirus crisis by flying infected passengers into Lebanon and Iraq and continuing flights to China, an investigation has found. Mahan Air, a private company linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), is accused of lying about these passenger flights after Tehran barred all flights to China on … Read more
Britain quarantined just 273 out of 18.1million people who arrived in the UK in the three months before the coronavirus lockdown, damning new figures reveal today. The occupants of three flights from the outbreak ground zero in the Chinese city of Wuhan and another bringing home passengers from a cruise ship of Japan were the … Read more
China’s new supersonic stealth bomber could be ready later this year. The feared Xian H-20, which doubles China’s strike range and completes its nuclear triad, puts Australia, Japan and Korea all within range. It would mean China would join the US and Russia is possessing a three-pronged military force that can launch nuclear missiles from … Read more
A major Chinese propaganda outlet has accused the US of launching ‘unprecedented propaganda warfare’ as Beijing sharpens its rhetoric against Washington amid a diplomatic war over the new coronavirus. The Global Times, a state-backed newspaper, also blamed Trump for ‘trying to impede global efforts in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic’. The fresh editorial attack came as … Read more
Boris Johnson hosts global summit to urge the world to unite to fund coronavirus vaccines and treatments as UK pledges £744m – but the US and China decide not to take part Boris Johnson today co-hosted a global summit to raise money for vaccine fund PM urged world to unite against ‘common enemy’ as UK … Read more
The number of Americans who have recovered from coronavirus is now DOUBLE the US death toll as more than 128,000 have survived – but daily new infection rates continue to surge Of the 1.07 million people in the US who have been diagnosed with coronavirus, at least 128,141 are confirmed to have recovered That’s twice … Read more
China has recorded the lowest number of active confirmed COVID-19 cases since January 23 when authorities enforced full lockdown on the city of Wuhan, officials said. A spokesman from National Health Commission claimed today that there are only 481 coronavirus patients receiving treatment in mainland China. The health official also declared that the infection tally … Read more
Donald Trump doubled down his attacks on the World Health Organisation last night and branded its handling of the pandemic a ‘disaster’. The President lashed out at the UN agency for blindly regurgitating information from Beijing and said it has ‘missed every single call’. He said the United States had been ‘foolishly’ pouring money into … Read more
President Donald Trump suggested that the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe is the result of a ‘horrible mistake’ made by China. The president continued to point the finger at Beijing on Sunday during a Fox News virtual town hall meeting at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. where he said China sparked the outbreak before … Read more
The Government was told by the UK’s intelligence community from the outset that China had concealed the true scale of the pandemic, sources claim. A senior former MI6 official says that Ministers were told ‘not to believe Beijing’s claims’ and to pour cold water on all information coming out of China. Britain’s intelligence agencies knew what … Read more