Society eventually recovered from the Black Death of 1347-51. But medieval historian Kriston Rennie says 'business-as-usual' in the aftermath as the threat of plague remained.

“Containment is feasible and must remain the top priority for all countries,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

Australia, one of the first countries to put restrictions on its borders in a bid to limit the spread of the virus, confirmed its first death from the disease on Sunday.

COVID-19’s global creep had some countries warning people to obey containment measures.

Hawaii officials were notified through the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday.

Humber River Hospital, which opened in 2015, was built after the SARS epidemic, and the viral outbreak had a major impact on the way the hospital was designed.

The World Health Organization will meet again to decide whether the new coronavirus constitutes an international public health emergency.

A county in China is offering money to tipsters who identify people who might have come from Wuhan, the epicenter of a coronavirus outbreak.

Wuhan in China and the nearby cities of Huanggang and Ezhou -- home to a total of 18 million people -- were locked down on Thursday in an unprecedented effort to contain the deadly new virus.

The mysterious lung virus is part of a large family of coronaviruses with a wide range of severity.