With fewer new daily cases recorded in epicenter of coronavirus outbreak, authorities to let some of the millions of residents leave, under certain conditions

With swathes of China under lockdown in an effort to contain disease, exports and imports have slowed, dropping global indicator of goods transportation costs to lowest since 2016

Specially trained paramedics being dispatched to people's homes to take samples amid escalating worries of outbreak following visit by tourists found to have virus

Teacher, student possibly exposed to pathogen through contact with Korean tourists say they've been feeling under the weather; PM, top officials to review efforts to counter virus

Students, teachers from Beersheba instructed to self-quarantine; Israel to block entrance of tourists from Asian nation set to land on Saturday evening

BBC report says the travelers visited the Jewish state with their church; Vatican spokesman: 'We're trying to clarify if someone from the local churches was in contact with them'

Questions raised over Beijing's indecision regarding how to count new cases, which experts say can harm understanding of disease

Planeload of people who had been in and around Wuhan to be quarantined in village near Kharkiv, but locals protest plan, clashing with police and throwing stones at buses

China's energy demand sags amid lockdown of millions of people to prevent spread of disease; valued at over $2 trillion in December, Saudi company slumps to $1.75 trillion

Liu Zhiming was at least the seventh medical worker to die during efforts to contain deadly virus and treat thousands already infected