Australian researchers said yesterday they have mapped the immune responses from one of country’s first coronavirus patients, findings the health minister said were an important step in developing a vaccine and treatment.

Tanzania and Somalia on Monday became the latest East Africa countries to confirm their first cases of coronavirus, as neighbouring countries shuttered borders and schools as fears of contagion rose.

A 64-year-old patient became the third victim of novel coronavirus at Mumbai’s Kasturba hospital in India yesterday. Meanwhile, the number of novel coronavirus cases in the country rose to 126 after fresh cases were reported from several states.

Britain yesterday ramped up its response to the escalating coronavirus outbreak after the government imposed unprecedented peacetime measures prompted by scientific advice that infections and deaths would spiral without drastic action.

An official from the World Health Organization, the body leading the global fight against the coronavirus pandemic, says that two staff members have been confirmed to be infected with coronavirus.

Considered the bastion of human activity, progress and community, the world’s cities are taking on a different hue -- one forced upon them by the fear of a coronavirus outbreak.

The World Health Organization (WHO) calls on Southeast Asian countries, including Bangladesh, to urgently scale-up aggressive measures to combat Covid-19, as confirmed cases crossed 480, and the disease claimed eight lives in the region.

British actor Idris Elba says he tested positive for the new coronavirus, joining Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, among the first major celebrities to contract the respiratory disease.

Tom Hanks has been released from the Australian hospital where he was in isolation since testing positive for the coronavirus last week, but his wife Rita Wilson remains hospitalised.

India shuts down all educational institutions, gymnasiums, museums, cultural and social centres, swimming pools and theatres till March 31 to contain the spread of coronavirus.

The new coronavirus has spread across Canada with a total of 313 cases confirmed Sunday in its 10 provinces, the chief public health officer told a news conference.

A Bahraini woman has died from the novel coronavirus, the health ministry announced yesterday, marking the first death from the

The US Navy reported its first suspected case of the new coronavirus aboard a ship, saying a sailor had tested positive for the disease but

The impact of weather on coronavirus infection rates has not been confirmed, said Cao Wei, Deputy Director and Associate Chief Physician of Department of Infectious Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital at a press conference yesterday.

Iran said yesterday that the novel coronavirus had killed 129 more people, a new record high for a single day in one of the world’s worst-hit countries.

Nightlife capitals New York and Los Angeles yesterday ordered schools, bars and restaurants to close or go take-out only as the US scrambled to contain the coronavirus pandemic and the Federal Reserve slashed rates to stem the fallout.

Bangladesh has urged all countries to "stand united" and help each other overcome the coronavirus outbreak, which may paralyse the whole world.

The first participant in a clinical trial for a vaccine to protect against the new coronavirus will receive an experimental dose in Seattle of US on Monday.

Cafes, shops and restaurants shut down across France and Spain and travellers face chaos at US airports as governments step up their fight against the coronavirus pandemic which has now reportedly killed more than 6,000.

All Dutch schools, cafes, restaurants and sport clubs are ordered to be closed as the government seeks to prevent further spread of coronavirus in the Netherlands.