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The forest fire had taken place in the same Liangshan Prefecture in 2019, at that time 27 firemen and 3 locals were killed, above is the photo taken on the1st of April 2019.

A forest fire in southwestern China has killed 19 people who were fighting the blaze and hundreds of reinforcements have been sent in as nearby residents are evacuated, officials and state media report.

The area threatened by the fire in Sichuan province is thinly populated, but there was no estimate on how many people were leaving the evacuation zone.

A BorgWarner factory in Caidian E-develop Zone of Wuhan city.

Shopkeepers in the city at the centre of the virus outbreak in China are reopening but customers have been scarce after authorities lifted more of the anti-virus controls that kept tens of millions of people at home for two months.

"I'm so excited, I want to cry," said a woman on Monday on the Chuhe Hanjie pedestrian mall who would give only the English name Kat.

The story of our South African returnees from Wuhan should give us encouragement and hope in the difficult weeks that lie ahead.

Dear Fellow South Africans,

As we begin the first full week of the nationwide lockdown to combat the coronavirus pandemic that is devastating the world, we are grateful for good news that brings us joy and hope at this difficult and uncertain time.

The construction site at Jiedaokou Station of the 2nd stage of Wuhan Subway Line 8 March 22, 2020.

One night in late January, Canadian Jacob Cooke found himself in Jiangsu province in China, desperately trying to find seats on a plane leaving the country and promising his brother, Joseph, he’d make it to Vancouver.

For more than a decade, they had run a business called WPIC Marketing + Technologies with an ocean between them, helping brands from Canada and, eventually, all over the globe launch e-commerce operations in China.