Photo of empty lodging facilities at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas

Life Under Virus Quarantine: Boxing, Chalk Art and Waiting

RIVERSIDE — There's Zumba and boxing classes, lectures on business and taxes, and chalk art outside for the children. While it might sound like a local recreation center's offerings, it's actually part of daily life for 195 American citizens quarantined on ...
Photo of a girl standing outside of a shop in Wuhan

China Locked Down 50 Million People and Has to Keep Them Fed

BEIJING — Carrying permits demanding “fast passage,” truck drivers rushed a 560-ton shipment of disinfectant from eastern China to Wuhan, the locked-down city of 11 million people at the center of a vast effort to contain a new viral disease. Outside the me...
Photo of a woman wearing a face mask as she walks in Beijing

Health Experts: Human-To-Human Spread of New Virus Worrying

BEIJING — World health officials expressed “great concern” Wednesday that a dangerous new virus is starting to spread between people outside of China, a troubling development as China and the world frantically work to contain the outbreak. For a second day, th...