Chinese officials on Wednesday reported 433 new cases and 29 new deaths from the novel coronavirus. That brings the country’s total to 78,497. cases, and 2,744 deaths.  The total number of cases globally has now topped 81,000 and nearly 3,000 have died.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed […]

 China’s National Health Commission reported 406 new confirmed cases, and an additional 52 deaths, as of Feb. 25. The country’s total is now 78,064 confirmed cases, and 2,715 deaths.  The global death toll from coronavirus rose to 2,762 on Tuesday night, with more than 81,000 confirmed cases. The US […]

 China’s National Health Commission reported 508 new confirmed cases and 71 new deaths, as of Feb. 24. That brings the country’s total to 77,658 confirmed cases and 2,663 deaths. The number of people sickened by the disease has now topped 79,000 globally.  China is getting the epidemic under control, but […]

 There were at least 77,150 confirmed cases in mainland China, bringing the global total to 79,356, with the death toll at 2,619. The number of new cases outside of Hubei stood at 18, the lowest since the commission started publishing nationwide data a month ago.  The number of confirmed coronavirus […]

 China’s National Health Commission reported 648 new confirmed cases, and 97 additional deaths as of Feb. 22. That brings the mainland’s total to 76,936 cases, and 2,442 deaths.  A Texas-based genetic engineering company is claiming to have a vaccine for the new coronavirus. Greffex Inc. CEO told the Houston Business […]

 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 […]