This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Eastern time. Total cases: About 20,900 as of Tuesday morning.Total deaths: 429 as of Tuesday morning. 8:49 am: American Airlines suspends Hong Kong flights American Airlines on Tuesday suspended its Hong Kong service to and from Dallas/Fort Worth and Los Angeles
Business
Chinese residents line up to get a free protective mask at a local pharmacy on February 2, 2020 in Beijing, China. Kevin Frayer | Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 6:43 am: China’s Hubei province confirms additional 64 deaths and 2,345 cases
Chinese men wear protective masks as they walk in a nearly empty shopping street on February 2, 2020 in Beijing, China. Kevin Frayer | Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Eastern time. 8:00 am: China says it has ‘unblocked’ channels of communication with Taiwan
The first National Football League team to drink Gatorade was the Kansas City Chiefs, who went on to win a Super Bowl that year. For the first time since winning the title in 1970, the Missouri football team is back in the big game this year. In the 50 years since the Chiefs’ victory, Gatorade
A woman wears a protective mask to prevent the spread of the SARS-like virus as she walks outside of the Forbidden city (back) after a snowfall in Beijing on February 2, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri | AFP | Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below in Beijing time.
Health officials examine passengers from Singapore, China and Hong Kong amid Coronavirus outbreak shortly after they arrived at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, East Java, on 30 January 2020. Suryanto | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times in U.S. eastern standard time The number
People buying protective masks at a medical supplies store in Manila on January 31, 2020. Ted Aljibe | AFP | Getty Images The Philippines confirmed that a man who tested positive for the new coronavirus died on Saturday. The 44-year-old man was the second confirmed case in the Philippines. Officials said he had a fever,
Chinese police wear protective masks as they stand guard on a main road on January 31, 2020 in Beijing, China. Kevin Frayer | Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below in Beijing time. 8:03 am: China confirms additional 2,590 cases, 45 deaths China’s National Health Commission said
Police officers in plainclothes raid a medical supply shop for allegedly hoarding and overpricing face masks, as public fear over China’s Wuhan Coronavirus grows, on January 31, 2020 in Manila, Philippines. Ezra Acayan | Getty Images All times below in U.S. eastern standard time. Roughly 2,100 new cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed in
Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar and members of the Trump Administration’s Coronavirus Task Force hold a press briefing at the White House on January 31, 2020 in Washington, DC. Sarah Silbiger | Getty Images U.S. health officials have instituted a mandatory 14-day quarantine of Americans traveling from China, starting this Sunday, marking
This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below in Beijing time. 9:30 am: Beijing says companies will return to work on Feb. 10 Beijing announced that companies in the municipality will postpone the resumption of work till Feb. 10 to stem the coronavirus outbreak, according to state media Beijing Daily.
A charter flight from Wuhan, China, carrying approximately 200 U.S. citizens, taxis to a stop at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, Calif. Wednesday morning Jan. 29, 2020. Will Lester | Inland Valley Daily Bulletin via Getty Images U.S. health officials have quarantined 195 Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China, taking the rare step of issuing
One Medical’s waiting room One Medical One Medical parent 1Life Healthcare priced its initial public offering at $14 per share late Thursday, at the bottom of the expected range of $14-$16 per share. The health care services firm, which is not yet profitable, raised $245 million in gross proceeds through JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley.
This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below in Beijing time. 8 am: China says death toll hits 213, cases rise to 9,692 China’s National Health Commission said there have been an additional 43 deaths and 1,982 new confirmed cases, as of the end of Thursday. That brings the country’s
NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA – JANUARY 30, 2020: A Rospotrebnadzor (Russian Federal Service for Consumer Protection and Welfare Supervision) official uses thermal imaging devices to remotely measure temperature of passengers arriving at Novosibirsk International Airport from Sanya, China, in connection with the outbreak of a pneumonia-like coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Kirill
India has officially confirmed that at least one case of the coronavirus has reached the country. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare confirmed the country’s first case in Kerala, a southwestern coastal state. The government body said in a statement that the patient is a student at Wuhan University in China and has been
This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below in Beijing time. 7:50 pm: Chinese officials confirm death toll rises to 170 China’s National Health Commission confirmed an additional 38 deaths and 1,737 new cases. Officials said that brings their total to 170 deaths and 7,711 cases, as of the end
Personnel in biological hazard suits await passengers evacuated from Wuhan, the Chinese city at the heart of a growing outbreak of the deadly 2019 Novel Coronavirus shortly after the plane landed at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, California on January 29, 2020. Matt Hartman | AFP via Getty Images U.S. agencies said Wednesday that
Leslie Wexner, the billionaire founder of L Brands, the parent company of Victoria’s Secret, is in talks to step down as CEO, according to the Wall Street Journal. He is currently exploring strategic alternatives for the Victoria’s Secret brand, the WSJ said, citing people close to the matter. L Brands shares jumped more than 11%
People wearing face masks ride escalators inside Hankou Railway Station on January 22, 2020 in Wuhan, China. A new infectious coronavirus known as “2019-nCoV” was discovered in Wuhan last week. Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below in China Standard Time, beginning on Wednesday. 7:27 am: Scientists