Shares skidded, oil prices sank and the price of gold surged on Monday as the number of people infected or killed by the viral outbreak that began in China surged, heaping more uncertainty on the economic outlook.

Police manned checkpoints around quarantined towns in Italy’s north on Monday as authorities sought to contain cases of COVID-19 virus that have made Italy the focal point of the outbreak in Europe and fears of its cross-border spread.

An Iranian lawmaker from the city of Qom says a staggering 50 people have died there from the new coronavirus this month, even as the Health Ministry insisted only 12 deaths have been recorded to date.

South Korea reported another large jump in new virus cases a day after the the president called for “unprecedented, powerful” steps to combat the outbreak that is increasingly confounding attempts to stop the spread.

Italian authorities have announced they are shutting down Venice’s famed Carnival events in a bid to stop the spread of the new virus, as the number of infected people in the country soars to at least 152, the most outside Asia.

China’s president has warned its virus epidemic is still “grim and complex” and called for more efforts to defeat the disease and prevent it from disrupting spring planting of crops

South Korea’s president has put his country on its highest alert for infectious diseases, saying Sunday that officials should take “unprecedented, powerful” steps to fight a viral outbreak.

Government-enforced lockdowns, transportation bans and strict quarantines aimed at curbing the spread of coronavrius in China have brought parts of the country to a standstill, with no end in sight. But the moves have had the collateral result of leaving millions of Chinese people frustrated and frightened, putting pressure on the government to offer them assistance in dealing with the…

A federal judge has granted a request by Costa Mesa for an emergency restraining order, blocking plans to transfer as many as 50 coronavirus patients from an Air Force base near Sacramento to the former Fairview Developmental Center as early as this weekend. The court papers, filed Friday in federal court in Santa Ana, state the city was only informed…

South Korea on Saturday reported a six-fold jump in viral infections in four days to 433, most of them linked to a church and a hospital in and around the fourth-largest city where health workers scrambled to screen more than 9,000 worshipers.

Iranian state TV is announcing the first partial results from the country’s parliamentary elections

Japanese officials say a passenger who got off the Diamond Princess after completing the cruise ship’s quarantine has tested positive for the new virus, becoming the first known case of infection among those released at the end of the ship’s containment period

The Tokyo Olympics open in five months on July 24

As global concerns over the coronavirus outbreak grow, the U.S. is taking steps to prepare for the possibility of a pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. Health authorities are closely monitoring the spread of the virus — not only in China, where the outbreak began and where the vast majority of the cases have been diagnosed…

In the coronavirus outbreak, it’s not the rising numbers that are worrying experts: It’s that they can’t trace where some disease clusters started.

Thousands of DuPont employees are working around the clock to increase production of protective garments that are in high demand by first responders and medical workers in high-impact regions like Wuhan, China. The protective suits are used by health professionals during the outbreaks to reduce the risk of infection. Reports from China show workers running low on safety supplies including garments...

South Korea is grappling with a ballooning number of cases of a new virus

The state University at Albany is investigating whether an off-campus coronavirus-themed party violated the college’s student code of conduct

China reported another fall in new virus cases Friday as health officials expressed continued optimism over containment of the outbreak that has caused more than 2,200 deaths but has grown elsewhere.