A cruise ship in Italy with 7,000 people on board was put in lock down after a passenger came down with symptoms. Initial tests showed no coronavirus, and final results are expected later Thursday
Russia shut its 2,600-mile border with China, while a cruise ship in Italy with 7,000 people on board was put in lock down after a passenger came down with symptoms. Initial tests showed no coronavirus, and final results are expected later Thursday. Meanwhile, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the outbreak may hurt the Chinese economy and push jobs back to the U.S.
An earlier flight carrying more than 200 Americans arrived at March Air Reserve Base in California, where the passengers are being monitored.Hong Kong warned it’s struggling to supply enough surgical masks. Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung said the government has bought 13 million, but public hospitals are using five or six times as many as normal and Hong Kong is stepping up local production at correctional facilities to keep up with demand.
Shanghai, the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia and provinces of Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu have said businesses need not start operations until at least Feb. 10. Hubei province, where Wuhan is located, has said the holiday will last until at least Feb. 14. Concern that the virus outbreak will disrupt the global supply chain rippled through Taiwan’s stock market. Taiwan’s Taiex plunged more than 5%, the most since October 2018, as trading reopened following the Lunar New Year break.
“That brings a more complex issue to disease control,” McIntyre said in a phone interview Thursday. “It becomes much harder to control infection where you have got transmission without symptoms.”Three of the 206 people who returned to Japan from Hubei Province on Wednesday tested positive for the new coronaaaavirus, with two not showing any symptoms, Japan Health Minister Katsunobu Kato told a parliamentary committee.
Asked whether the White House is considering restricting flights to China, Kudlow said, “there’s a lot of discussions going on one way or another.”
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