COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, has spread much quicker and farther than MERS and SARs and any other epidemic that has caused panic in recent memory.  The outbreak emerged in Wuhan, China, in December, and has spread around the world. President Donald Trump declared a national emergency on March 13, and almost every state has followed suit as…

The publishers of three major American newspapers are asking the Chinese government to reverse its decision to expel many of their journalists working in China

NBC Bay Area’s Bigad Shaban talks with Bay Area native Christina Fang about her experience in China during the coronavirus pandemic.

Christina Fang, a Bay Area native who has been working abroad in China for nearly a year, returned to Shanghai Friday after evacuating to California amid the spread of COVID-19. Upon landing in Shanghai, Fang was subjected to several temperature checks at the airport and then bussed to a facility to be tested for the coronavirus.

The Chinese city where the coronavirus first emerged reported no new homegrown cases Thursday, while the death toll in Italy was poised to overtake China’s in a stark illustration of how the outbreak has pivoted toward Europe and the U.S.

A Northern California man who was charged with acting as an agent of China’s government and arrested as part of an FBI sting operation was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday, federal prosecutors said.

China will revoke the media credentials of all American journalists at three U.S. news organizations, in effect expelling them from the country

Mass disruptions are cascading around the world as governments struggle to slow the spread of the coronavirus while also trying to keep their economies afloat

The Peace Corps is telling its volunteers around the world that it is suspending all operations globally and evacuating all volunteers in light of the spread of the new coronavirus

Researchers in China released a new study that shows many children infected with coronavirus do not show the same symptoms as adults, making early detection more challenging.

Last month, well before the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, a little-known unit within the Defense Intelligence Agency had already predicted that the outbreak would reach pandemic proportions, NBC News reports.

Riding the subway for the first time after weeks of working remotely from home, Zhuang Xue felt a sense of calm, outfitted in a blue surgical mask and protective goggles as she headed for the office.

A healthy 24-year-old English teacher from Southern California has been isolated in her Yinchuan, China apartment for nearly 40 days due to fears of coronavirus spread.

At least 10 people were killed and another 23 remain missing after a hotel being used in China’s coronavirus fight suddenly collapsed

Four people have been killed in the collapse of a hotel in southeastern China that was being used for medical observation of people who arrived from areas hit by the coronavirus outbreak

The coronavirus, or COVID-19, outbreak is keeping a Tierrasanta woman from seeing the birth of her first grandchild in China. The viral outbreak is keeping two parts of a family thousands of miles away from each other at a time when they need each other the most. The love between a mother and daughter knows no distance. Nothing is more...

A decade ago, Beijing bureaucrats pondered how to assimilate the mostly Muslim minorities in China’s far west, saying their religion and culture were “incompatible with the requirements of modern industrial production.”

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…

Nations around the world girded for months of disruptions from the new virus Thursday as its unrelenting spread brought ballooning infections, economic fallout and sweeping containment measures.