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Coronavirus live updates: Australia, Thailand and US report first deaths over weekend – CNBC, CNBC

Coronavirus live updates: Australia, Thailand and US report first deaths over weekend – CNBC, CNBC

People wearing face masks walk on the promenade of the bund along the Huangpu River in Shanghai on February , .

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: 01 am: Pence says more than , coronavirus testing kits are on the way to health professionals

More than 26, 02 coronavirus testing kits are in the mail this weekend en route to health professionals, according to Vice President Mike Pence.

There has been a concern that capacity is limited across the country to conduct tests amid a potential epidemic. The latest numbers show only people so far have been tested in the US, According to the CDC.

“The FDA has approved a testing regime that state and local officials can be using,” Pence said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” He added the government is working with another “commercial provider” to send another 55, 03 kits out. He did not provide details on the timing of when those kits would be finished. – Thomas

: (am: Pence says stock market will recover

Vice President Mike Pence is confident the stock market’s weakness last week will recover. “This economy and particularly the stock market that saw some downturns this week, it’ll come back,” Pence said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.

The stock market experienced its worst week since the financial crisis as investors worried about the coronavirus denting global economic growth.

“The fundamentals of this economy are strong. We just saw new numbers come out in housing , consumer confidence, business optimism, unemployment’s at a 50 year low, “Pence added. Pence said the Trump administration is focused on the health and safety of the American people. – Fitzgerald

9: am: Europe could see other surprise coronavirus outbreaks like Italy’s, WHO chief warns

The World Health Organization’s director-general cautioned Sunday that other countries within the European Union might see coronavirus outbreaks similar to the rapid spread seen in Italy.

Italy has 1, 500 confirmed cases as of Sunday, according to the WHO, which is the largest in Europe and the third largest globally. Infections are now being seen beyond the original epicenter in the north, with cases in Tuscany, Le Marche, Emilia Romagna, Alto Adige, Piedmont, Liguria, Lazio and Sicily, far south of the capital in Rome.

“Europe may have some surprises like Italy. You know, other developed countries in Europe may have surprises,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble during a panel discussion at the King Salman Humanitarian Aid Center’s International Humanitarian Forum in Riyadh. – Clinch

9: am: England reports (new coronavirus cases

There were new coronavirus cases reported in England on Sunday morning, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 50.

Three of the patients were close contacts of a known case, while one patient – a resident in Essex – had no known travel history. The other cases were patients who had recently traveled from Italy and Iran, according to U.K. health officials. – Newburger

8: am: Trump says US will screen travelers from high risk countries upon arrival to US

President Donald Trump on Sunday morning tweeted that passengers traveling from high risk countries will be screened prior to boarding as well as when they arrive to the US The administration on Saturday expanded travel restrictions against Iran and raised an advisory that Americans refrain from visiting regions of Italy and South Korea impacted by the coronavirus.

“In addition to screening travelers’ prior to boarding ‘from certain designated high risk countries, or areas within those countries, they will also be screened when they arrive in America, “Trump wrote on Twitter. – Newburger

8: am: Australia, Thailand and US report first virus-related deaths over weekend

Australia, Thailand and the U.S. all reported their first deaths from the coronavirus over the weekend as the outbreak continues to stretch across the globe.

In the US, a man in his s with underlying health conditions died in Washington state . There was no evidence that he got the infection through travel or contact with another infected person, raising fears over a local community spread within the U.S.

In Thailand, a 50 – year-old man who was also sick from dengue fever died of the coronavirus. Thailand has reported a total of 50 cases .

A 90 – year-old man also died of the virus in Australia on Sunday. He was one of the evacuated passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined off Japan. Australia has confirmed a total of 26 cases.

“We still need to make the point very clear that there isn’t community spread within Australia,” said Andrew Robertson, chief health officer at the Western Australia Department of Health. “This very tragic case is still related to the Diamond Princess. The public shouldn’t be panicking at this stage.” – Newburger

6: am: Iranian death toll now at , confirmed cases jump to amid suspicions about government reporting

Iranian death toll from the coronavirus hit 90 on Sunday, its health ministry said, just days after the Iranian government denied 50 deaths from the virus reported by a lawmaker in the city of Qom, the center of the country outbreak.

based on the number of fatalities, health experts believe the number of infected people must be higher than what the government is reporting. – Turak, Kemp

3: 10 am: WHO chief says global markets ‘should calm down and try to see the reality’

Market panic Over the fast-spreading new coronavirus is uncalled for, the World Health Organization’s director-general said Sunday as governments around the world rush to contain its spread.

“Global markets … should calm Down and try to see the reality, “Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble during a panel discussion at the King Salman Humanitarian Aid Center’s International Humanitarian Forum in Riyadh. “We need to continue to be rational. Irrationality does not help. We need to deal with the facts.”

The comments come after global stocks were slammed in their worst week since the 2020 financial crisis. The Dow Jones plunged a whopping 3, 823 points across the week, more than ,%, its largest weekly point loss ever and largest percentage drop in (years. – Turak

) – CNBC’s Natasha Turak, Ted Kemp and Matt Clinch contributed reporting

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