An official from the World Health Organization, the body leading the global fight against the coronavirus pandemic, says that two staff members have been confirmed to be infected with coronavirus.

China's death toll from the coronavirus epidemic rose to 2,442 after the government says 97 more people had died, all but one of them in the epicentre of Hubei province.

After nearly two weeks cast away in search of a port that would take them, passengers aboard the MS Westerdam cruise ship spoke of an ordeal that was anything but harrowing.