- The Japanese government is stepping up measures to curb the new coronavirus spread. As of next Monday, the country will begin quarantining visitors from China and South Korea.
- A team of Chinese scientists says it has discovered two major types of the coronavirus, with one of them being more transmissible than the other.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have agreed to implement a ceasefire in Syrian’s northwestern province of Idlib.