Organizers of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games say they are on track to complete all competition venues by year-end and have teams in place for test events, despite the devastating impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak that originated in the country late last year.

China's central bank said Friday that it will take measures to support financial institutions in issuing various financial bonds to aid the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke over phone with U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday morning.

A four-year-old Chinese national who had previously diagnosed with the novel coronavirus has fully recovered and will be allowed to return home to China, the Malaysian Health Ministry said late Tuesday.

In early January, authorities in the Chinese city of Wuhan were trying to keep news of a new coronavirus under wraps. When one doctor tried to warn fellow medics about the outbreak, police paid him a visit and told him to stop. A month later he has been hailed as a hero, after he posted his story from a hospital bed, reports BBC.

An expert known as one of the world's top virus hunters is working with Chinese scientists and public health officials to develop strategies for enhancing the basic science needed to reduce morbidity and mortality caused by the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Zhao Puzhou, a native of east China's Zhejiang Province, recently bought a mask factory in Cambodia. When the factory, with a planned daily production capacity of 100,000 masks, goes into operation, the masks, in next to no time, will be sent back to China at a cost price of 0.3 yuan (4.3 U.S. cents) each.