Window of opportunity to contain the coronavirus is ‘narrowing’

As the number of Covid-19 cases increases in Italy, where there have been five deaths in the past 72 hours, Austria considers tightening border controls to contain the spread, and...

Coronavirus: bedlam in Ukraine

Despite new cases of Covid-19 steadily decreasing overall, tensions begin to bubble over, as protestors in Ukraine hurl stones at buses carrying evacuees from China. And elsewhere, Chinese nationals are...

How effective are travel bans on curbing the spread of infectious diseases?

New research from the University of Washington and Johns Hopkins University in the US has found that the effectiveness of travel bans is mostly unknown

Coronavirus update: Wuhan hospital director dies as epidemic begins to curb

The director of a hospital in Wuhan has died after contracting Covid-19

Can fake news harm human health?

New research funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and conducted by the University of East Anglia (UEA) suggests so

Coronavirus update: fatality in France

Covid-19 claims its first fatality in France while cruise industry operators make efforts to avoid Asia entirely