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- Passengers who served out of a 14-day quarantine aboard the Diamond Princess have begun disembarking, with Japanese officials expecting 500 people to do so by the end of Wednesday.
- Health authorities in China say 136 more people infected with the new coronavirus died on Tuesday mainly in Hubei Province, bringing the number of fatalities in the country to 2004.
- The global economic slowdown has pushed Japan’s trade deficit to its highest level in a year.
- China’s Xi Jinping leadership is facing its toughest challenge ever, as the new coronavirus could affect its political base.
- A total of 897 people have been confirmed to have the new coronavirus outside mainland China based on an NHK tally.
- Japan is expected to become capable of testing up to about 3,800 people a day for the coronavirus.
- School operators across mainland China have delayed the resumption of classes as more than 70,000 people have been infected with the new coronavirus there.
- Two U.S. charted flights have left Japan, carrying 328 Americans from the cruise ship quarantined south of Tokyo.
- New figures from the Japanese government show that GDP shrank in the final quarter of last year, as the consumption-tax increase weighed on consumer spending.
- Health authorities in China say 142 deaths from the new coronavirus were confirmed, mostly in Hubei Province.
- New cases of the coronavirus in Japan have been confirmed, bringing the total to over 400, including 355 on a cruise ship offshore.
- The top diplomats of Japan, the U.S. and South Korea have agreed to support China’s efforts to curb the spread of infections with the new coronavirus.
- Chinese health authorities say 143 more people died from the new coronavirus on Friday, bringing the death toll in mainland China to 1,523.
- An international agency says the new coronavirus outbreak has led to a sharp fall in the number of Chinese tourists around the world and that Japan could lose maybe 1.3 billion dollars in tourism revenue in the January-March period.
- Japan’s health ministry confirmed that a woman infected with the new coronavirus has died.
- China’s health authorities say the number of deaths from the coronavirus has risen to 1,380.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed his support for the idea of including a provision in the new constitution forbidding handing over the country’s territory.
- Japan’s health ministry says another 44 cases of new coronavirus infection have been confirmed on the cruise ship Diamond Princess.
- The Japanese government has devised the first set of emergency measures to deal with the new coronavirus outbreak.
- A cruise ship that has been denied entry by a number of countries due to fears over the coronavirus has arrived in Cambodia.
- Japan’s health minister says 39 more people on board a cruise ship at the port of Yokohama have been found to be infected with the new coronavirus. A quarantine official has also been infected.
- The Japanese government will ban people from the Chinese province of Zhejiang from entering the country starting Thursday.
- The World Health Organization says the disease caused by the new coronavirus has been named COVID-19.
- Officials of China’s National Health Commission say 108 more people died from the new coronavirus on Monday, bringing the total number of fatalities in the country to 1,016.
- Japanese health officials are retesting people who returned home on board the first government-chartered flight from Wuhan for the new coronavirus.
- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has issued a statement to commemorate Japan’s national foundation day.
- Chinese health authorities say the number of confirmed cases of new coronavirus in mainland China has topped 40,000, with the death toll now over 900.
- U.S. Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigeig is trying to win support from a wider spectrum of voters ahead of Tuesday’s primary in New Hampshire.
- Iran has announced that it launched a rocket carrying a satellite that failed to reach orbit.