Coronavirus Outbreak | Live Updates on Covid-19 - Part -1

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Hong Kong confirms 3 new coronavirus cases

February 17, 2020

Three new cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed in Hong Kong, bringing the citywide total to 60 confirmed cases, including one death, the Hong Kong Health Ministry announced on Monday.

Taiwan and Singapore each confirm 2 new cases

February 17, 2020

Two new cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed in Singapore, bringing the citywide total to 77 confirmed cases, the Singapore Ministry of Health has announced. Additionally, Taiwan’s Health Ministry announced two new cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the total to 22 confirmed cases, including one fatality.

February 17, 2020

5 more people in Japan test positive for coronavirus

Tokyo Marathon cancels entries from the public, restricts race to elite athletes

February 17, 2020

The race, scheduled for March 1, will only allow elite runners and elite para-athletes to participate. Members of the public who were eligible to run this year will be given a slot next year without having to enter the lottery. The Tokyo Marathon lists 64 elite runners and 18 athletes listed in the “wheelchair elite” category on its website. Organizers say 293,275 people entered the lottery for one of the 26,370 marathon spots for this year.

5:12 AM, February 17, 2020 (ET)

A further 99 more people from the Diamond Princess cruise ship have tested positive for novel coronavirus, the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare announced on Monday. It’s the largest single-day increase of cases stemming from the ship to date.

Map of World Showing Current Status of Coronavirus Outbreak (February 14, 2020) — Chinese President Xi Jinping and the other attendees of the fourth and last Plenary Meeting of the National People’s Congress stand and listen to the National Anthem at The Great Hall Of The People on March 15, 2019, in Beijing. Source: Getty Images

4:26 AM, February 17, 2020 (ET)

The Chinese government is considering delaying its annual meeting of the National People’s Congress (NPC), a gathering of the country’s nearly 3,000 national legislators, as the government continues to deal with the fallout from the coronavirus outbreak, Chinese state media reported.

1:00 AM, February 17, 2020 (ET)

Two more people in Japan have tested positive for coronavirus, the country’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has announced.

One patient is an administrative assistant with the ministry who had been working on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, where hundreds of infections have been confirmed.

The other is a nurse in her 40s who had been treating a woman in her 80s infected with the virus in Kanagawa prefecture, officials there said. The elderly woman later died, becoming the first person in Japan to be killed by the virus.

The nurse didn’t come into close contact with others and is undergoing treatment in hospital, authorities said.