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8: am: China’s Shandong province delays start of work
China’s Shandong province told companies not to go back to work until Feb. , in a bid to tackle the spread of the coronavirus, according to China’s state media Xinhua.
Shandong joins other provinces and cities in delaying the start of work. Hubei authorities have announced that businesses are not to resume work until midnight on Feb. . Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing, Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Suzhou, Inner Mongolia and Zhejiang told businesses not to resume work until midnight on Feb. 9.
8 am: China says death toll hits , cases rise to 9, (
China’s National Health Commission said there have been an additional (deaths and 1, 2019 new confirmed cases, as of the end of Thursday. That brings the country total to 202001 deaths and 9, 728 confirmed cases , the government said.
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5: pm: Hubei province reports (additional deaths)
: 43 pm: First human-to-human transmission of coronavirus confirmed in US
: 43 pm: First human-to-human transmission of coronavirus confirmed in US
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Illinois public health officials confirmed Thursday the nation’s first person-to-person transmission of the coronavirus. The new patient is the spouse of the Chicago woman who brought the infection back from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak, Illinois health officials said during a CDC press briefing. The transmission makes the U.S. at least the fifth country where the infection is now spreading through human-to-human contact.
2: pm: WHO declares global health emergency
The World Health Organization said the fast-spreading coronavirus that’s infected more than 8, (across the world is a global health emergency – a rare designation that helps the international agency mobilize financial and political support to contain the outbreak.
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– CNBC’s Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and William Feuer contributed to this report.
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