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Here's everything you need to know about the novel coronavirus, its mechanism and the drugs that are being explored as potential treatments.

Two-thirds of US nursing homes still don't have easy access to test kits and are struggling to obtain sufficient resources amid the coronavirus outbreak in the US.

On Wednesday, President Trump signed an executive order to suspend immigration to the US and halt the issuance of new green cards for the next 60 days.

The research assessed 1,065 participants from China and Singapore, who were mostly pediatric patients with the novel coronavirus infection.

As restrictions are eased, Angela Merkel has pointed to South Korea as an example of how Germany will have to improve measures with more testing and tracking of cases to slow the infection rate.

While there have been isolated protests in states aimed at lifting aggressive stay-at-home measures, most Americans don’t believe it will be safe to ease the restrictions anytime soon.

With further studies, the researchers said they can perform better screens to find what existing drugs target the biological mechanism of COVID-19.

The daily tally -- 387 deaths in hospital and 144 in nursing homes -- brought France's total epidemic death toll to 20,796, a top health official said.

Britain remains on lockdown, with people asked to stay at home, but MPs were determined that parliament return as planned.

There are currently some 2,500 patients receiving intensive care for coronavirus infections.

The CCTV footage from a Dutch business park shows a man in a black cap pouring the contents of a white container at the base of a cellular radio tower.

Babu, who is from the prestigious Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has been appointed as a member of the National Science Board for a six-year term.

Massachusetts' death toll is expected to surpass 2,000 this week, doubling in less than a week.

Since 1989, customers have followed a tradition of taping dollar bills to the cedar walls of Hamburger Joe’s in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, about 120 miles north of Charleston.

Abba Kyari, in his seventies, is the highest-profile person in Nigeria to be killed by a virus that has caused 493 confirmed infections and 17 deaths in the country.

Stanford researchers said between 48,000 and 81,000 people had been infected in Santa Clara County on April 1 contrary to the government that reported 956 virus cases.