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NBC has an exclusive look inside the Wuhan lab working to track the origins of the virus.

The World Health Organization’s emergencies chief said Monday that it has received no evidence from the U.S. government to back up allegations by President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the coronavirus could have originated at a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan. “From our perspective, this remains speculative,” Dr. Michael Ryan told reporters in...

What was the source of the coronavirus

China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences began the second phase of a clinical trial on Sunday for a coronavirus vaccine.

After spending more than two months indoors, Wuhan resident Tong Zhengkun was one of millions of people enjoying a renewed sense of freedom when the Chinese city’s 76-day coronavirus lockdown was lifted Wednesday.

A Dallas man who has lived under quarantine in Wuhan, China, for the past three months has some advice on how to stay sane.

A new coronavirus first reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019 has since infected more 124,000 people worldwide, including more than 1,100 in the United States. COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, has killed scores, quarantined millions and wreaked havoc on the world’s economy. The World Health Organization officially declared the crisis a pandemic on March…

New virus cases in China rose by just 394 from the previous day, with a rise in the death toll of 114, the government said Thursday, as health inspectors went door-to-door to find every infected person in the worst-hit city.

A hospital director who helped lead the fight against China’s new virus has become one of its victims. Liu Zhiming had mobilized all the resources of his hospital in Wuhan city, at the center of the outbreak, as thousands of patients arrived each day. Liu is at least the seventh health worker to die of the disease among the more...

China is reporting 254 new deaths and a spike in virus cases of more than 15,000, after its hardest-hit province applied a new system that broadens the scope of diagnoses for the outbreak, which has spread to more than two dozen countries

China’s daily death toll from a new virus topped 100 for the first time and pushed the total past 1,000 dead, authorities said Tuesday after leader Xi Jinping visited a health center to rally public morale amid little sign the contagion is abating.

They may have escaped Wuhan — the Chinese city at the epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic — but many left without their pets and almost two weeks on, they fear for their animals which have been left without food and water, NBC News reports.

China’s death toll from the new virus outbreak has topped 900 deaths, surpassing the number of people killed in the SARS epidemic two decades ago. The Chinese government is taking strict measures to keep the coronavirus from spreading, but is drawing criticism in the process.

Signs of support for the Chinese city at the center of a global virus outbreak marked floats at the Lunar New Year parade in Manhattan’s Chinatown on Sunday as brightly colored puppets made their way through the streets in front of crowds of onlookers. A banner on one float read “Support Wuhan! Let’s fight the virus together!” Another urged,...