China reported an uptick in new cases of coronavirus on Friday, boosted by more than 200 people testing positive for the disease in two prisons outside of Hubei province, the epicenter of the outbreak

More than 100 patients who have recovered from the novel coronavirus, officially dubbed COVID-2019, have donated enough blood plasma to treat 200 critical patients, Xu Nanping, China's deputy science minister, said on Friday

Clinical trials of a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, dubbed COVID-19, in China will most probably begin in late April, Xu Nanping, the vice-minister for science and technology said on Friday

Chinese Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Xu Nanping said on Thursday that the country's authorities temporarily suspended all research related to fetal DNA editing following reports about creation of the world's first genetically edited babies.