"novel coronavirus"

The government has decided to provide up to $4.6 billion (¥500 billion) loans over the next two years to help developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region fight against the novel coronavirus, sources said.

When Gov. Doug Ducey allowed Arizona's stay-at-home order to expire on May 15, 340 patients were in intensive care units statewide due to the novel coronavirus - the largest number since the beginning of the pandemic. Public health experts at the University of Arizona spent the week before publicly pleading with Ducey to postpone reopening, suggesting cases in the state were still projected to grow. 

Deborah Coughlin was neither short of breath nor coughing. In those first days after she contracted the novel coronavirus, her fever never spiked above 100 degrees. It was vomiting and diarrhea that brought her to a Hartford, Connecticut, emergency room on May 1.

The Government Pharmaceutical Organisation (GPO) has increased production of five drugs used treat Covid-19 to make sure that it will be sufficient for all patients.

President Donald Trump and his allies are increasingly seizing on China's role in the spread of the novel coronavirus as a vehicle to launch a full-throated attack on presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden - and to deflect criticism of his own role in the domestic health crisis. 

The State Department is preparing to evacuate thousands of Americans stranded overseas, with 16 flights scheduled in the next five days and more to follow, officials said Monday.

BEIJING - A respected neurologist who was director of Wuchang Hospital in Wuhan died Tuesday after contracting the novel coronavirus, despite a "full-effort rescue," according to Wuhan's municipal health commission as the death toll from the outbreak crossed 2,000.