Gong Zheng appointed acting mayor of Shanghai

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  Shanghai to help Houston fight COVID-19: Chinese diplomat

  Few cars are on road in Houston, Texas, the United States, March 24, 2020.Chinese Consul General in Houston Cai Wei made a phone call to Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner on Friday, saying the Chinese city of Shanghai will help Houston combat COVID-19, according to a statement posted Saturday on the co

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  Gong Lijiao makes 2020 debut by throwing world-leading 19.70m

  Two-timeworldshotputchampionGongLijiaothrewaworld-leading19.70matameetinginBeijingthatwasclosedtospectatorsonSaturday.。Themeeting,hostedbyBeijingSportUniversity,wasthefirstindoorathleticscompetitionstagedbytheChineseAthleticsAssociationthisyear.。Duetotheoutbreakofthenovelcoronavirus,theWorldAthletic

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  Pressure grows on UK to act

  A woman wearing a protective face mask and gloves in Westminster as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in London, March 18, 2020. (Photo: Agencies)Life should not feel normal, Sturgeon warns Scots, as calls for lockdown riseThe United Kingdoms death toll from the novel coronavirus reached 335 on Monday, an overnight increase of 54, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson came under increasing pressure to follow the lead of many European leaders and put the country into lockdown.Johnsons regular afternoon media briefing was delayed until later in the evening because of on-going high-level discussions about the countrys attempts to deal with the outbreak, as the death toll increased.Speaking earlier in the day, Scotlands First Minister Nicola Sturgeon adopted a direct approach, after a weekend that saw many people continuing to ignore advice about social distancing."I want to repeat what I said yesterday: life shouldnt feel normal for you right now," she said. "If it is, youre not doing the right things." She went on to say that shops providing anything other than essential items, such as food and medicine, should now close.A total of 14 people in Scotland have now died from the virus, and the countrys Chief Medical Officer Catherine Calderwood said each one probably represented around 1,000 further infections."We have 23 people currently in our intensive care units across Scotland who have coronavirus and each of them represents perhaps 400 to 500 other people that will have become infected in the course of their illness," she added.A warning of what might lie ahead for the UK came when a Ministry of Defence representative said Londons ExCel Arena exhibition venue could be taken over by the National Health Service as a makeshift field hospital."To assist NHS England to prepare for a number of scenarios ...military planners visited the ExCeL center ... to determine how the cent...