India became the latest country to report a case - a student of Wuhan University
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South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it had extended the holiday closure for some Chinese production facilities. Infections have been reported in at least 16 other countries, with 105 confirmed cases, but no deaths have occurred outside China. Chinese National Health Commission Minister Ma Xiaowei said this week the virus was infectious during incubation, unlike Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome , another coronavirus that emerged from China and killed about 800 people in 2002 and 2003.Countries getting citizens out of China have to decide what to do with them as fears of infection grow.
President Moon Jae-in has urged people not to give in to fear as the country prepared to evacuate the first of about 700 citizens from Wuhan.“The weapons that will protect us from the new coronavirus are not fear and aversion, but trust and cooperation,” he said.Singapore said all the 92 citizens it is bringing home on Thursday, with accompanying foreign ministry staff, will be taken either to hospital or quarantined for 14 days.
A second Japanese flight landed in Tokyo on Thursday with nine people showing symptoms of fever or coughing, broadcaster NHK said.In China, a government economist said first-quarter growth could fall by one point to 5% or lower.
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