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- The World Health Organization has raised its global risk assessment over the spread and potential impacts of the new coronavirus to its highest level.
- Japan’s prime minister will explain a government plan to shut down schools across the country in an effort to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.
- The Japanese government’s request to close all schools to help control the spread of the new coronavirus is causing confusion and concerns among parents and local school officials.
- The World Health Organization says the number of new coronavirus infections outside China has exceeded those inside the country for the first time.
- Chinese telecom giant Huawei says it will build a factory in France to make 5G wireless equipment.
- NHK has learned the number of people in Japan who tested positive for the new coronavirus has risen to 894.
- U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested the impact of the virus in his country will be limited because of his administration’s containment policy.
- World leaders committed to maintaining the 2015 Iran nuclear deal have been deadlocked in negotiations with Tehran.
- The total number of confirmed infections with the new coronavirus in Japan stands at 862.
- The South Korean government announced on Wednesday that 169 more people have tested positive for the coronavirus, pushing the total number of infections in the country to over 1,000.
- Worries about the impacts of the coronavirus led investors in New York to unload shares for a second day in a row as traders moved money into safer assets.
- Japan’s government has drafted a basic policy on the new coronavirus in a bid to stem additional cases.
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged more than 1,000 points. Share prices worldwide were down due to concerns about the economic impact of the coronavirus.
- Health authorities in China say 71 more people died on Monday from the new coronavirus, bringing the total death toll in mainland China to 2,663.
- Japanese carmaker, Toyota Motor, has resumed operations at a plant in Chengdu, China.
- Health authorities in China confirmed on Sunday that 150 more people have died with the new coronavirus infection.
- Conservative hardliners have won about 70 percent of the seats in Iran’s parliament following Friday’s vote.
- A woman in her 60s in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, has tested positive for the new coronavirus after disembarking from the quarantined cruise ship docked near Tokyo.
- Sunday marks one month since a de-facto lockdown began for the coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan.
- Japanese Emperor Naruhito turned 60 on Sunday. Ahead of its first day, the Emperor held his first news conference since ascending the throne in May last year.
- The last group of passengers to test negative and show no symptoms for the new coronavirus have disembarked from a quarantined cruise ship docked at Yokohama Port near Tokyo.
- Health authorities in China said on Friday that they have confirmed an additional 109 fatalities, bringing the country’s death toll to 2,345.
- The head of the World Health Organization has called for quick action to contain wider international spread of the new coronavirus, after cases were reported in Iran and Lebanon.
- A third group of passengers from the coronavirus-hit Diamond Princess cruise ship near Tokyo are disembarking.
- Iran holds a parliamentary election on Friday, with about 7,100 candidates vying for 290 seats.
- An opinion piece by a Taliban leader in the New York Times expresses the group’s commitment to signing a peace agreement with the United States.
- Two passengers from the Diamond Princess have died after being infected with the new coronavirus.
- Health authorities in China reported 114 more deaths from the new coronavirus on Wednesday mainly in the Province of Hubei, bringing the total number of fatalities in the mainland to 2,118.
- French prosecutors say they have opened a judicial inquiry into the alleged misuse of corporate funds at automaker Renault, while Carlos Ghosn was in charge of its alliance with Japan’s Nissan Motor.