China’s National Health Commission reported an additional 109 deaths, almost all in Hubei province. That brings the country’s death toll to 2,345 people, according to government data. As of the end of Friday, the new coronavirus has infected another 397 people with China’s total confirmed cases at 76,288.  In the […]

 Chinese officials announced that there were 889 new cases of the coronavirus in the previous 24 hours, raising the overall total above 75,000. The death toll went up by 118, to 2,236.  South Korea has become one of the worst affected places outside mainland China, reporting 52 new cases and […]

 Chinese study finds novel coronavirus more contagious than SARS and MERS. China’s National Health Commission reported an additional 114 deaths, and 394 new confirmed cases as of Feb. 19.  The novel coronavirus has now killed more than 2,100 people, with eight deaths reported outside of mainland China. It has infected […]

 China’s National Health Commission said there was a total of 74,185 confirmed cases as of Feb. 18, and 2,004 people have died so far. Hubei province reports an additional 132 deaths.  Liu Zhiming, 51, a neurosurgeon and the director of the Wuchang Hospital in Wuhan, died shortly before 11 a.m. […]

 China says 80 percent of coronavirus cases have been mild, as death toll rises again.  As of Feb. 17, the Chinese government said a total of 72,436 people are confirmed to have had the disease while 1,868 people have died.  Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, has repeated an unsubstantiated […]

 The novel coronavirus has infected more than 71,000 people globally, mostly in mainland China. The death toll is 1,775, including five people outside mainland China.  China’s National Health Commission reported 2,048 new cases of coronavirus infections and 105 new deaths over the previous 24 hours. The number of new deaths […]

 China death toll rises to 1,665, as total cases reach 68,500. Hubei’s health authorities reported 1,843 new cases and 139 more deaths as of Feb. 15.  The White House doesn’t trust China’s coronavirus numbers.  Nepal evacuates 175 citizens, mostly students, from Wuhan after coronavirus outbreak.  25,633 medical workers sent to […]

 China confirms 143 more deaths, 2,641 new cases. That brings the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 66,492, and number of total deaths at 1,523.  China says over 1,700 medical workers have been infected by the virus, and six have died.  Africa has its first confirmed coronavirus […]

 Mainland China has recorded 5,090 more cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the global total to 64,435. The death toll from the coronavirus has now risen to at least 1,486 globally.  There are at least 585 confirmed cases of coronavirus in more than 25 countries and territories outside mainland China. […]

 China’s Hubei province announced 242 new deaths from the novel coronavirus, twice as many as on the previous day. New infections there jumped by more than 14,000.  The virus has killed more than 1,300 people and infected over 60,000 people worldwide. The vast majority of cases are in mainland China. […]

 The novel coronavirus has killed more than 1,100 people and infected over 45,000 people worldwide. The vast majority of cases are in mainland China.  A total of 175 cases have been confirmed on a cruise ship quarantined in Japan. More than 2,000 people are stranded on another cruise that was […]