Coronavirus

The concept of the WHO declaring global public health emergencies first arose after the 2003 Sars coronavirus outbreak.

China has been battling the scourge of a new novel disease – coronavirus, which has infected about 1,975 people in...

Apart from 80 deaths, 2,744 people have been confirmed infected by coronavirus across China as of Monday.

Health personnel are carrying out further tests on an unnamed student who returned from Beijing on Saturday.

The outbreaks of coronavirus in China and Lassa fever in Nigeria dominated the health scene last week.

The WHO, however, warned that there is an emergency in China.

He said the emergency committee on Wednesday was split on whether to designate the illness a global health emergency.

Coronavirus has so far killed nine people in Wuhan, a city of 11 million in central China.

China confirms the possibility of human to human transmission of the virus.

Suspected bandits on Tuesday killed two health workers supervising a polio vaccination exercise in Zamfara State.

Experts who analysed the gene sequencing of the virus think it could be triggered by a new type of coronavirus

The Saudi Ministry of Health recently warned against contact with camels.

Pilgrims are advised to eat chicken.