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Officials with the World Health Organization diffused widespread concerns that another global pandemic could unfold amid a cluster outbreak of a rare and deadly hantavirus — the Andean strain — on a Dutch cruise ship travelling from Argentina to Cape Verde. “This is not coronavirus. This is a very different virus,” Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove,...

The COVID-19 crisis is a major blow to many small businesses. For some in Calgary, shutting down temporarily could lead to going out of business forever. Gil Tucker reports.

The CDC is reporting the first case of the coronavirus in the U.S. in a person who travelled from China and was diagnosed in Seattle. The virus has killed at least six people in China and nearly 300 people have been infected.

Chinese authorities are preparing to cut off all transportation to Wuhan, the city at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak. As Crystal Goomansingh explains, the mysterious SARS-like illness has killed at least 17 people, but the World Health Organization is holding off on declaring a global health emergency.

Videos released on Dec. 2 show protesters pushing open a barrier to gain access to a facility sealed off by authorities in Wuhan, the Chinese city believed to be the origin of the coronavirus pandemic. Reuters was able to confirm the location from the buildings and road layout seen in the videos, which matched file...

In its weekly coronavirus update, the Province of Saskatchewan said there were 384 COVID-19 patients in hospital as of Wednesday, of which 206 were incidental infections.

As the dim sum cart made its way around the China Pearl restaurant in Boston, every table was packed — a welcomed change for many restaurants, bakeries and businesses in the city’s Chinatown. Many business in the area have experienced a heavy drop in sales due to fears of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) spreading and...

Global health authorities are still working to determine who carried the COVID-19 coronavirus into a meeting of a firm selling gas metres, which then spread the virus to five countries, infecting over a dozen people. Authorities are, however, still trying to determine if the case was a so-called “super-spreading” event like that of SARS at...

Dr. Michael Ryan, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme said on Friday when asked about the upcoming Tokyo Olympics that it offers risk assessment, but it isn’t up to their organization to decide whether to cancel mass events in the wake of the outbreak of the coronavirus.

Organizers from the Mobile World Congress said Thursday that the decision to cancel the major telecoms conference later this month in Barcelona was due to concerns for people’s health and safety amid the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak and was “not about money.”

China’s Health Commission said on Thursday that the death toll in the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak had increased by 254 to a total of 1,367 as of midnight local time and more than 52,500 cases had been confirmed.

A cruise ship that had been turned away by five separate countries over concerns someone on board may have the COVID-19 coronavirus finally found a place to dock on Thursday as it arrived in Cambodia, with passengers and crew expressing relief following two weeks at sea. The Westerdam is, however, calling for a postponement of...

Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said on Thursday that just over 400 Canadians had been repatriated, including some permanent residents who had links to Canada, from Wuhan, China. Asked about whether any more Canadians were looking for assistance to evacuate, Champagne says he has not received information there are any other Canadians wanting to return and...

Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said on Thursday that 12 Canadians had tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus and they were working with Japanese officials to ensure consular services were being provided to all nationals onboard. He also said authorities may allow for some passengers to disembark and be quarantined onshore and Canada was waiting for...

Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said on Thursday that all assistance necessary would be provided to the more than 250 Canadians on board the MS Westerdam ship, docked in Cambodia, so they could disembark onto shore and get to their final destinations.

More than 300 American cruise liner passengers, including 14 who tested positive for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, were flown home to military bases in the United States, after two weeks under quarantine off Japan.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam spoke at a press conference on Feb. 18, where she said that evacuees from the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship will have to undergo yet another quarantine once they exit the ship, in wake of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus called COVID-19.

Apple became the latest company, and the biggest, to flag economic damage as a result of COVID-19, saying supply has become a problem with factories in China still slow to reopen and a dip in sales of devices.

Health Minister Patty Hajdu said on Monday that they were working with the manifests of the Westerdam cruise ship to determine the travel paths of Canadians who were on board, following a report a woman who was on board tested positive for COVID-19. Also noting to those who have been travelling internationally in an area...

Federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu is in Vancouver to discuss what the government is doing in relation to the outbreak of COVID-19.