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01/02/2020

Britain pulls embassy staff, families from China as coronavirus spread

  • The decision, which follows a similar move by the US this week, came as the death toll from the outbreak soared to 259
  • Health officials on Friday confirmed the first cases in the UK after two people tested positive for the virus
A coach carrying British nationals evacuated from Wuhan arrives at the Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral, near Liverpool in northwest England. Photo: AFP
A coach carrying British nationals evacuated from Wuhan arrives at the Arrowe Park Hospital in Wirral, near Liverpool in northwest England. Photo: AFP
Britain on Saturday said it was temporarily withdrawing some staff and their families from its diplomatic sites in China, as Beijing struggles to contain the nationwide new

coronavirus

epidemic.

The decision, which follows a similar move by the United States this week, came as the death toll from the outbreak soared to 259 and the total number of cases neared 12,000 within China.
The Sars-like virus has also begun to spread around the world, with more than 100 infections reported in more than 20 countries.

“We are committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of our staff and their families,” a spokesman for the British Foreign Office said.

“We are therefore temporarily withdrawing some UK staff, and their dependents from our embassy and consulates in China.”

He added that Britain’s ambassador in Beijing and staff needed to continue critical work will remain, and that British nationals in China would still have access to constant consular assistance.

The US, which on Friday temporarily banned the entry of foreign nationals, who had travelled to China over the past two weeks, has also made similar changes.

Two people in UK test positive for coronavirus

31 Jan 2020

On Wednesday, it authorised the departure of non-emergency government employees and their family members from its offices in Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenyang.

And on Friday, it ordered all relatives of staff members under the age of 21 to leave China immediately.

A spokesman for the US Embassy in Beijing said it made the decision “out of an abundance of caution related to logistical disruptions stemming from restricted transportation and overwhelmed hospitals related to the novel coronavirus”.

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British health officials on Friday confirmed the first cases in the UK, after two members of the same family tested positive for the virus.

One of the two individuals is a student at the University of York, a university spokesman said on Saturday.

Also on Friday, 83 British citizens returned on a UK government-chartered flight from Wuhan, the Chinese city at the centre of the epidemic.

They were immediately taken to a hospital in northwest England for a two-week quarantine.

Source: SCMP

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17/11/2019

Chinese vice president addresses international conference to commemorate Confucius’s birth

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Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan poses for a group photo with representatives of guests before they attend the opening ceremony of the international conference in commemorating the 2,570th anniversary of Confucius’ birth and the sixth Congress of the International Confucian Association (ICA) in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 16, 2019. Wang addressed the opening ceremony of the conference here on Saturday. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)

BEIJING, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) — Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan addressed the opening ceremony of the international conference in commemorating the 2,570th anniversary of Confucius’ birth and the sixth Congress of the International Confucian Association (ICA) Saturday.

Wang, on behalf of President Xi Jinping and the Chinese government, extended sincere congratulation to the opening of the conference.

The notable achievements in the past 70 years of the People’s Republic of China were made through the hard work of Chinese people, drawing on the wisdom and fine elements of Chinese civilization, Wang said.

President Xi’s keynote speech at the fifth ICA Congress in 2014 pointed out the direction of how to advance Confucianism and other fine elements in traditional culture as well as promote mutual learning among different civilizations, he said.

Wang called for the efforts to borrow the wisdom from traditional Chinese culture, respect other cultures across the world and enhance exchanges and mutual learning.

He also expressed the hope that the ICA will use Confucianism as a bridge to explore and improve understanding of the world and contribute to the progress of human civilization.

Source: Xinhua

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