 | | | | India shut all primary schools in the capital New Delhi until the end of March on Thursday and imposed new restrictions on travel from Italy and South Korea as part of efforts to fight the spread of the coronavirus. | | | | | | Japan's Olympics minister signaled on Thursday the Summer Games would go ahead as planned from July even as the coronavirus outbreak spread to new parts of the country. | | | | | | A growing number of countries around the world have been evacuating or planning to evacuate diplomatic staff and citizens from areas hit by the new coronavirus. | | | | | | Wuhan, the epicenter of China's coronavirus epidemic, will likely see new infections drop to zero by the end of this month, an expert with the country's top panel on battling the illness said on Thursday, even as the city reported a quicker rise in new confirmed cases. | | | | | | When the deadly virus was first discovered in China, authorities told the people in the know to keep quiet or else. Fearing reprisal from Beijing, local officials failed to order tests to confirm outbreaks and didn't properly warn the public as the pathogen spread death around the country. | | | | | | Airlines have been suspending flights or modifying services in response to the coronavirus outbreak. | | | | | | The fast-spreading coronavirus has reached some 80 nations with more new cases now reported outside China where the flu-like illness first emerged late last year. | | | | | | There are now over 95,300 cases worldwide and more than 3,200 people have died, a Reuters tally shows. | | | | | | China will take steps to improve and promote commercial health insurance, centralize drug procurement and promote generic drugs, as part of deepening health sector reforms unveiled amid the coronavirus crisis, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday. | | | | | | South Korea declared a "special care zone" on Thursday around a second city hit hard by the coronavirus and the U.S. military confirmed two new cases among relatives of its troops in the country, which is battling the biggest outbreak outside China. | | | | | | Indonesia will ban entry and transit of foreign visitors who have visited cities hit by coronavirus outbreaks in Iran, Italy and South Korea in the last 14 days, starting March 8, the country's foreign minister said on Thursday. | | | | | |
