By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission  reported five new COVID-19 cases in the city. This cluster are the first new cases in...

There has been an awful lot of going back and forth over the appropriateness of naming or calling a disease by the location in which it was first found. In this video, I demonstrate using thirty infectious...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Singapore The Ministry of Health (MOH) has confirmed two additional cases of 2019-nCoV infection in Singapore. Of these, one was on the evacuation flight from Wuhan...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection (CHP) reported  investigating three additional cases of novel coronavirus infection, taking to 18 the number of confirmed...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Hong Kong The Hong Kong Hospital Authority reported (computer translated) the first death from a novel coronavirus infection in Hong Kong. The 39-year-old male was...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews On Saturday, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc just signed a decision declaring the 2019 novel coronavirus (nCoV) an epidemic in Việt Nam, according to a Viet...

As well as sequencing the whole genome of coronavirus 2019-nCoV, the Institut Pasteur continued to work on the samples taken from the first confirmed cases. The quality of these initial samples enabled...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Wuhan Municipal Commission of Health is reporting (computer translated) an additional 60 novel coronavirus (2019-NoCv) cases and two deaths. Of the 60 patients,...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In an update on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak in Wuhan City, China, the Wuhan Municipal Commission of Health reports (computer translated) 17 additional...