Wuhan

WASHINGTON – The Biden administration has halted the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s access to federal funding after the lab failed to provide documents about safety and security…

WASHINGTON – The World Health Organisation (WHO) has scrapped plans for a team that visited Wuhan, China to probe the origins of the coronavirus pandemic to issue an interim report, The…

President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have been beating a drumbeat of blame for COVID-19: Both claim that the novel coronavirus behind the pandemic came from a lab in…

WUHAN, China: Thousands of travellers flocked to catch trains leaving Wuhan early on Wednesday (Apr 8) as authorities lifted a more than two-month ban on outbound travel from the hard-hit…

Before he became ill, he had met in Munich on Jan. 20 and Jan. 21 with a Chinese business partner. A resident of Shanghai, she had been in Germany from Jan. 19 to Jan. 22. The report said…

OTTAWA – All Canadians evacuated from the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in China will be placed in quarantine for 14 days once they arrive at a military base in the province of…

NEW YORK  – The Wuhan coronavirus spreading from China is now likely to become a pandemic that circles the globe, according to many of the world’s leading infectious disease experts. The…

SEOUL  – South Korea on Monday (Feb 3) said it will put in place policies to minimise the impact on its economy of the coronavirus outbreak, and vowed to act to calm any financial market…

WASHINGTON – China has been more transparent about the coronavirus than it has been in previous crises but Beijing has not yet accepted a US offer of help to contain the epidemic, White…

LONDON – Morgan Stanley said on Wednesday (Jan 29) the coronavirus outbreak in China was likely to hurt global growth in the near-term and could shave up to 1 percentage point off China’s…