When World Health Organization investigators wrapped up their work examining the origins of the coronavirus in Wuhan this month, Chinese officials were clear where they felt the WHO should look next.

Hopes are rising that China can pull the globe out of its coronavirus-induced funk, much as it did during the global financial crisis more than a decade ago—but economists offer a long list of reasons to be skeptical.

Authorities in Hong Kong, a city lauded for its quick and effective response to the coronavirus pandemic, are now warning of potential "exponential growth" in new cases of Covid-19 after a surge in local transmissions.

The coronavirus has infected more than 8 million people around the world as of Monday, killing at least 433,919 people.

China is drawing up ambitious plans to test the entire population of Wuhan, the city where the Covid-19 pandemic began.

In the global jostling amid the coronavirus crisis, Beijing is extending its influence while U.S. President Donald Trump continues to squander America's leadership role. The pandemic could mark the beginning of a new Chinese era.

China’s coronavirus death toll appears far higher than its official tally. Authorities are curtailing memorial services, denying many a proper chance to mourn loved ones.

The lockdown in the Chinese city where the outbreak began will be partially lifted next month.

China reported its first day with no new locally transmitted coronavirus infections, three months after the first case was detected. But the march of the affliction gathered pace while nations throughout the world braced for a surge of infections and, ultimately, deaths.

Whereas Europe finds itself in the middle of second wave of the coronavirus, the pandemic has as good as passed in China. But people here are paying a high price for their return to normality.

Scientists have identified a new strain of flu carried by pigs in China that they say has the potential to become a pandemic.

Finding work for a generation has become a major priority for the country’s leaders, who have promised a better life in exchange for a lack of political freedom.

The small Wuhan cluster is the first to emerge since the end of the strict lockdown on 8 April. One of the five cases reported on Monday was the wife of an 89-year-old man who became the first confirmed case in the city in well over a month on Sunday.

The president also blasted the U.N. agency’s early recommendations for countering the coronavirus.

BRUSSELS－China, emerging from the most difficult period in its own battle against the novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak, has been standing with the world at a time when the pandemic is rapidly spreading worldwide.

The United States, China and Europe are battling to be the first to find a cure, bringing a nationalist element to a worldwide crisis.