In the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak, the government is considering a temporary travel ban to and from China.

Canada's first "presumptive" case of a new coronavirus has been detected in a man who returned to Toronto from the Chinese city where the virus first appeared, health officials announce.

The deadly Wuhan coronavirus, officially called 2019-nCoV, has killed 56 people and infected at least 1300 others in China. The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released guidance on the symptoms of the virus. A person could be at risk if they have:

A newly organised vaccine research group at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is likely to be testing the first of a number of potential experimental vaccines against the new SARS-like coronavirus that is spreading in China and beyond.

Bangladeshi students in Wuhan city of China, the epicentre of the Coronavirus outbreak, which has claimed 41 lives so far, are under a lockdown in their respective dorms and residences for the last two days.

Images of viral outbreaks are often accompanied by throngs of people wearing surgical masks in public places, and they’ve become the first line of defence in such situations. However, their effectiveness at controlling the spread of viruses have been called into question by experts.

Cases of Coronavirus have been detected in Australia, Malaysia and Nepal as the virus has already claimed 41 lives in China.

China put millions of people on lock down in two cities yesterday at the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak that has killed 17 people and infected more than 630, as authorities around the world worked to prevent a global pandemic.

A Washington state man who recently traveled to China and a man from Macau are diagnosed with the coronavirus, becoming the first confirmed US and Macau cases of the newly identified virus that has killed people in China and rendered some 300 others sick across Asia.