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- The death toll from the new coronavirus outbreak in China has surpassed the number of worldwide deaths from the 2003 SARS epidemic.
- The World Health Organization says an investigative team will leave on Monday or Tuesday for China to help devise ways to contain new coronavirus infection.
- Japan has put another intelligence-gathering satellite into orbit.
- Chinese health authorities say that, as of Friday, the number of people who have died from illnesses caused by the new coronavirus has climbed to 722.
- The World Health Organization says demand for medical masks has increased up to 100 times due to an outbreak of the new coronavirus.
- U.S. President Donald Trump has indicated that a senior National Security Council official, who testified against him in the impeachment inquiry, might be removed from his post.
- The number of patients infected with the coronavirus in mainland China has exceeded 30,000, with the death toll surpassing 600.
- Japan’s health ministry says another 41 people aboard a quarantined cruise ship moored at Yokohama Port have tested positive for the new coronavirus.
- The Iowa Democratic Party has announced that former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is in first place in the state’s caucuses, with all precincts counted.
- Chinese health authorities say over 28,000 people on the mainland are now infected with the new coronavirus. They say the death toll has risen to 563.
- Japanese health officials say ten more people on a cruise ship docked at Yokohama, near Tokyo, tested positive for the new coronavirus on Thursday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases on the vessel to 20.
- The impeachment trial against U.S. President Donald Trump has ended with him acquitted of all charges.
- Japanese health officials say that so far 10 people on board a cruise ship anchored off the coast of Yokohama have been confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus.
- Health authorities in China said on Tuesday that 65 more people in Hubei Province have died from the new coronavirus. This brings the total number of deaths in China to 490.
- The race to choose the U.S. Democratic Party’s presidential nominee started with chaos… and a significant delay in the results of the Iowa caucuses is finally giving way to partial results.
- Japanese quarantine officials have boarded a cruise ship moored off Yokohama, near Tokyo, to screen its crew and passengers for the new coronavirus.
- China says the new coronavirus has infected more than 20,000 people and claimed the lives of more than 400.
- The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will set up a hotline to strengthen efforts to prevent the spread of new coronavirus infections.
- The death toll from the new strain of coronavirus in China has now topped 360.
- The Shanghai Stock Exchange has plunged on its first day open after an extended Lunar New Year holiday.
- Economists have forecast that Japan’s GDP shrank during the final 3 months of 2019 after the consumption tax hike hit the economy in October.
- A Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer has left for the Middle East to conduct survey and research activities.
- China’s health authorities announced that there have been 45 new deaths in Hubei Province, the center of the coronavirus epidemic, bringing the death toll in mainland China to 304.
- Officials of Japan’s Foreign Ministry say the next chartered flight to bring Japanese evacuees from China’s Hubei Province is likely to be sent late this week.
- Chinese authorities say 259 people have died so far in the country from the new coronavirus, as the number of confirmed infections has surged to over 11,000.
- The United Kingdom has officially left the European Union, in what some say is the country’s biggest post-war shift.
- U.S. senators have rejected a call to summon former national security advisor John Bolton to testify in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.