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The Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers) has killed more than 800 people since 2012.
Immunologist Drew Weissman and his team started work on the project last spring and one of the vaccines was shown to prevent Sars.
Health certificates that use the phrase ‘will be deemed void’ and may result in passengers being refused entry on arrival, flag carrier says.
International team led by WHO experts will examine the first cases identified in Wuhan to try to track the animal source of the virus.
Shi Zhengli tells Science magazine that US President should say sorry for linking the research institute to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Warnings about the risks of bat coronaviruses causing human disease have gone unheeded for years and ‘our prolonged deafness now exacts a tragic price’, top scientists write in journal article.
Responding to claims by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, national health authority says this was done for biosafety reasons and to ‘prevent secondary disasters caused by unidentified pathogens’.
Cuomo told a daily briefing that he was increasingly worried about a syndrome that shares symptoms with toxic shock and Kawasaki disease.
Man-made strains will bridge the gap between the real-life virus and computer modelling, scientist says.
Outbreak highlights need to monitor spread of coronavirus in animals to understand risks, experts say.
Nearly 300 clinical studies are under way in 39 countries and regions in search for an effective treatment for Covid-19.
Researchers from Imperial College in London looked at how 11 countries had responded to the crisis and estimated how many lives had been saved by intervention.
Not associating Wuhan with the virus in the naming of Covid-19 follows WHO best practice for naming diseases. Likewise, its travel recommendations are also consistent with its own guidelines, and in no way favour China.
New comprehensive analysis of virus cases in mainland China showed that age was a key determining factor in serious infections.
The US president has adopted a cooperative tone on the pandemic after a phone call with his Chinese counterpart.
The first published postmortem results found Sars-like lesions on the lungs of an 85-year-old from Wuhan.
Pathological features of Covid-19 greatly resemble those seen in Sars and Mers, say researchers in Beijing, who used samples from 50-year-old.
Another Wuhan doctor says she was silenced after raising concerns about human-to-human transmission.
American health specialists offering to take part in the international mission ‘have not been invited’
Containing the virus and assessing its economic impact are the priorities, observers say after US adviser predicts fall in agricultural products Beijing buys.
Despite hard lessons learned from Sars in 2003, many Hong Kong organisations and educational institutions remain unaware of the need to devise guidelines for facing an epidemic of such a scale.
The new contagion may be far less deadly than severe acute respiratory syndrome but it has already infected more than four times as many people.
Beijing accuses Washington of spreading fear and setting a bad example for other countries with its response to the outbreak.
Li Ruiqi’s mother went into a Wuhan hospital for an operation. Now she has the infection but nowhere to go for treatment.
Documentary series airing as China battles coronavirus outbreak warns a new flu pandemic is inevitable, and points out it is the country where ‘virtually all of the deadly influenza viruses’ of past 50 years have emerged.