Authorities are racing to identify the cause of a mystery lung infection that has struck nearly 60 people in central China.

Public health experts have warned that China’s live animal markets are a perfect breeding ground for emerging infectious diseases, with one expert branding them a “recipe for disaster”.

Woman is admitted to hospital with serious pneumonia-like symptoms as new coronavirus sparks panic across Asia

Fearful residents of Wuhan say they can't keep hiding forever amid reports of attacks on medical staff treating coronavirus patients

Interesting patterns have emerged from a study of more than 44,000 coronavirus patients

Exercise Cygnus dramatically exposed the gaps in Britain’s pandemic response but its ‘terrifying’ findings have yet to be published

Medical journals have detailed how Covid-19 has developed in different patients, with cases ranging from mild to fatal

'Indiscriminate lockdowns' are an ineffective way to control Covid and could contribute to a 45 per cent rise in child mortality

Gender-based violence already hit almost 1 in 3 women in Ecuador, and the situation has only worsened in the pandemic

People are increasingly turning to religion to find meaning, research shows

The country is now battling two Ebola outbreaks, the coronavirus and the world's largest measles epidemic

Forget patient zero. Pathogens with pandemic potential are constantly jumping from animals to humans, say experts

Units that only used recirculated air could exacerbate the spread of virus particles

'The guards just throw the bodies out back as if it was trash,' said one

Families are being forced to commodify their children during the pandemic through child marriage, labour or being trafficked across borders

Will a second wave be deadlier than the first, or will a vaccine soon stem the tide? Three experts give their view

Major producers of unhealthy food and drink used the pandemic to promote their products at the expense of public health, the report claims

Last week ministers were finally forced to publish the secret report on Exercise Cygnus. It's in the report’s detail that the danger lies

Care workers and the elderly are currently prioritised, but thereafter all sorts of complexities and awkward political decisions lurk

Contact tracers speaking anonymously to The Telegraph said they were 'overloaded with information'

The experts, including England's former Chief Medical Officer, are set to travel to Wuhan 'as soon as possible'

Caught between jihadists and climate change, the region faces an almighty humanitarian crisis

Its low price-point and easy storage will allow the job to be easily distributed worldwide

As the UK’s leading first aid charity gears up to deliver mass coronavirus vaccines, our reporter joins a training day to find out more

For Katalin Karikó, vaccine approval is a validation of 40 years of hard work, and opens the door to a new generation of medicines

Over nine million Indians have contracted the disease, and hospitals in India’s capital have again run out of beds

Global health security editor Paul Nuki, whose team have been reporting on the Covid frontline, reflects on a year like no other