The embattled UN health agency must know what data it wants and assess what it is given without fear or favour.

Ministry says Chinese embassy misunderstood official count, which includes unspecified cases.

Centre seeks to assure the public after its director co-authors a paper calling for higher surveillance in the pig industry for G4 strain.

Guangdong-born Cantonese speaker Zheng Yanxiong will be the public face of the agency overseeing implementation of the law in the city.

Researchers in California have established a possible explanation for why some patients develop cardiac complications.

Move comes after Washington announced its own sanctions against party members who undermine the city’s degree of autonomy, rights and freedom.

Candidate developed by the PLA and CanSino Biologics added to armed forces’ list for one year.

Any American efforts to undermine introduction of national security law for the city will not succeed, foreign ministry says.

Chinese teams are behind half of the world’s potential vaccines making fastest progress but their approach differs from the West.

Researchers carried out antibody tests on samples from health care workers, family members and hotel staff from the outbreak epicentre in China.

WHO recommends expanded use of face masks after five months of debate.

Trials of drugs promoted by Donald Trump halted as a result of study, but scientists now admit they cannot verify data on which it was based

Chinese president pledges to pour resources into network to enable swift response to disease outbreak but analysts say this alone is not the answer.

46-year-old ‘died of cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint and neck compression’, Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office says.

With this year’s candlelight vigil banned, the most prominent dissident still living in Hong Kong says facts of 1989 are unchanged.

Fu Xuejie writes on social media that she does not want her husband’s case sensationalised after Republicans in Congress tabled bill to change road’s name.

Health agency faces mounting criticism and financial pressure amid pandemic, with US threatening to permanently cut funding.

Authorities say patients can have lung and heart problems in the longer term – among other consequences.

Psychological distress ‘widespread’ amid physical isolation, fear of infection, dying or losing loved ones, and anxiety over economic turmoil.

The researchers, including White House task force member Anthony Fauci, set out why coordinated international approach is necessary.

Advocates say tests in which volunteers are deliberately infected with the pathogen that causes Covid-19 will help to speed up the development of a vaccine for it, but some scientists are concerned about the ethical and medical implications.

We ask four employees what attracted them to the company and what keeps them working there after it was put on a trade blacklist by the US.

Mainland China might have had four times as many infections as the official total if broader criteria used, team says.

Protocols developed at the pandemic’s first hotspot could guide health care workers in the US and Europe as they struggle with the same issues.

Study suggests that 59 per cent of infections were asymptomatic or mild enough not to attract medical attention.

Researchers are looking to repurpose existing pharmaceuticals to target the new coronavirus that has already killed thousands around the world.

More than 43,000 people in China had tested positive without immediate symptoms by the end of February and were quarantined.

Government records suggest first person infected with new disease may have been a Hubei resident aged 55, but ‘patient zero’ has yet to be confirmed.

Seasonal viruses tend to die off as the weather warms, but not enough is known about the new strain to assume it will react in the same way, experts say.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday the risk for Covid-19 to spread globally was very high, but it has stopped short of declaring it a pandemic.