WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Saturday approved a request from the Department of Health and Human Services for the possible use of military facilities to accommodate 1,000 people who may have to be quarantined upon arrival from overseas...

ALHAMBRA, Calif. (AP) — The rapid spread of a new virus from China has cast a pall across Chinese American communities, with people staying inside whenever possible, wearing medical masks when they must go out and canceling some celebrations for Lunar...

RIVERSIDE, California (AP) — Nearly 200 Americans evacuated from China because of the new virus are "very relieved' to be quarantined at a military base in Southern California for two weeks, one of them said Friday.“All of us really want to stay here...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Friday declared a public health emergency and took drastic steps to significantly restrict entry into the country because of a new virus that hit China and has spread to other nations.President Donald Trump has...

BEIJING (AP) — Meron Mei, a sophomore at Wuhan University in the Chinese city at the heart of a viral outbreak, went back to his home village and started to cough.So he went to the hospital and got checked. Doctors determined it was a common cold, not...

Stocks fell sharply on Wall Street Friday as fears spread through the markets that a virus outbreak emanating from China will dent global growth.The Dow Jones Industrial Average skidded more than 600 points and the S&P 500 index erased its gains for...

NEW YORK (AP) — Delta, American and United said Friday they will suspend all flights between the U.S. and mainland China, following the lead of several major international carriers that have stopped flying to China as the coronavirus outbreak continues...

BEIJING (AP) — The Latest on the outbreak of a new virus from China (all times local):4:40 a.m.Germany has confirmed its sixth and seventh cases of the virus that is spreading from central China — and one new patient is a child of an employee who...

BEIJING (AP) — Carrying permits demanding “fast passage,” truck drivers rushed a 560-ton shipment of disinfectant from eastern China to Wuhan, the locked-down city of 11 million people at the center of a vast effort to contain a new viral disease.Outside...

Stock markets turned lower again on Friday after world health authorities declared the virus pandemic that has spread from China to more than a dozen countries a global emergency.Germany's DAX fell 0.3% to 13,116 and the CAC 40 in Paris shed 0.4% to 5,848...

BANGKOK (AP) — The holiday was over for almost 80 Chinese visitors to Thailand.They were lining up at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport to catch a flight home -- to Wuhan, their hometown and the epicenter of a viral outbreak that has sickened thousands...

BEIJING (AP) — Some Americans plan to leave China after the U.S. government advised about a spreading virus outbreak, but many others are staying.The State Department issued a travel advisory Friday saying Americans in China “should consider departing.”...