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As the rest of the world mobilized to fight the widening coronavirus pandemic on Saturday, China continued to ease up lockdown measures in its hardest-hit region, where the number ...

The illness caused by the new coronavirus, COVID-19, continues to spread across borders, but the risk of contracting it isn’t the same for everyone. It depends on a range ...

As Canadian cases of the new coronavirus linked to Iran grow, so does the scrutiny surrounding how the country has handled the crisis so far. The outbreak of Covid-19 ...

The Geneva auto show was cancelled after the Swiss government put an immediate ban Friday on all public and private events involving more than 1,000 people in order to ...

A deepening health crisis became an economic one too Friday, with the virus outbreak sapping financial markets, emptying shops and businesses, and putting major sites and events off limits. ...

Scientists raced to find a treatment, crews scrubbed everything from money to buses, and quarantines were enforced Wednesday from a beachfront resort in the Atlantic to an uninhabited island ...

Schools were shuttered, churches told worshipers to stay away and some mass gatherings were banned as cases of a new virus swelled Friday in South Korea, the newest front ...

New virus cases in China have again declined, up just 394, after authorities on Thursday again changed how they count new daily infections. They are now discounting cases that ...

Canadians stranded on a quarantined cruise ship were told that a flight set to bring them home is “expected” to depart Tokyo Haneda Airport on Thursday amid an outbreak ...

The feel-good story of how Cambodia allowed a cruise ship to dock after it was turned away elsewhere in Asia for fear of spreading the deadly virus that began ...

Two charter flights carrying cruise ship passengers from Japan landed at military bases in California and Texas overnight, starting the clock on a quarantine period to ensure passengers dont ...

With so much still unknown about a new virus multiplying in China, many countries are closing the curtains on Chinese travellers. But experts are raising doubts about whether that ...

More than 1,700 Chinese medical workers have been infected by the new virus that has killed nearly 1,400 people and spread to other parts of Asia and as far ...

China on Thursday reported 254 new deaths and a spike in virus cases of 15,152, after the hardest-hit province of Hubei applied a new classification system that broadens the ...

Japan announced Thursday its first death from a new virus from China, hours after confirming 44 more cases on a cruise ship quarantined near Tokyo as fears of the ...

Canada will aim $6.5 million at research on stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus, after co-ordinating with researchers around the world on tackling the outbreak. Representatives of the ...

Chinas ruling Communist Party needs to make a politically fraught decision: Admit a viral outbreak isnt under control and cancel this years highest-profile official event. Or bring 3,000 legislators ...

An adult website has proposed a way to help quarantined cruise-ship passengers pass the time: watching pornography. Miami-based company CamSoda has extended an offer some may not be able ...

The death of one of China‘s first coronavirus whistleblowers has prompted grief, fear and anger from many people in the country. The virus, which was first detected in ...

The world is facing a chronic shortage of gowns, masks, gloves and other protective equipment in the fight against a spreading coronavirus epidemic, World Health Organization (WHO) chief ...

Chinas top Communist Party investigators are looking into relevant issues raised by the public about a whistleblower doctor who was threatened by police after publicizing his concerns about ...

Scientists in the city at the centre of China’s virus outbreak have applied to patent a drug made by U.S. company Gilead Science Inc. to treat the disease, ...

China on Thursday finished building a second new hospital to isolate and treat patients of a virus that has killed more than 560 people and continues to spread, ...

On a giant cruise ship that measures 205 feet tall and spans nearly 1,000 feet long, being confined to a windowless cabin is not an ideal vacation. The ...

Pregnant women infected with the new coronavirus may be able to pass it to their unborn children, doctors at the Wuhan Children Hospital said on Wednesday, according to ...

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd on Tuesday warned of more cruise cancellations after calling off eight trips out of China through March 4 due to the coronavirus outbreak. The ...

As the novel coronavirus continues to dominate headlines, a group of forgotten victims is emerging the family pets left behind. Lao Mao, a 43-year-old man from the virus’s ...

Beijing announced Saturday that US imports that can be used in China's fight against a deadly new virus will be exempted from retaliatory tariffs imposed in ...

Canadian bats are unlikely to be the source of virus strains that can infect humans such as the one currently raising global alarms, a bat expert says. “We’ve ...

Note: This is a developing story and will be updated periodically. Thousands of cases of a new virus have been confirmed worldwide and the efforts being made to ...