Travel bans and quarantines are an age-old answer to stopping the spread of disease, but it's exactly what the World Health Organization has advised against.

United normally operates roughly 12 flights per day from the United States to mainland China and Hong Kong.

Thousands of cases of a new virus have been confirmed worldwide and the efforts being made to control its spread are ramping up.

The plane took off from a former military airport at Beja, 200 kilometers (120 miles) southeast of Lisbon carrying just its pilots and crew.

For now, the new strain has been dubbed 2019-nCoV — an oddly clinical title for a virus that's so far sickened thousands and killed nearly 150.

Air Canada and Air China have signed a joint venture agreement that will increase co-operation on flights between Canada and China and on key connecting domestic flights in both countries.