A woman wears a protective mask near the Chinatown section of New York City on January 23, 2020,as many people were seen wearing the mask in the area since the outbreak of the Wuhan Coronavirus. - Authorities in Texas are investigating a second suspected case on US soil of a deadly Chinese virus, namely a college student who had recently returned from the city at the heart of the outbreak, officials said Thursday. Brazos County, just northwest of Houston, "is investigating a suspected case of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)," its health authority wrote in a statement on Facebook. China locked down some 20 million people at the epicentre of a deadly virus outbreak on Thursday, but the World Health Organization said the disease did not yet constitute a global health emergency. "The patient traveled from Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus originated," it added. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)
سجّلت كوريا الجنوبية خلال الـ24 ساعة الماضية 110 إصابات جديدة بفيروس كورونا المستجد (كوفيد 19).
وأوضحت مراكز السيطرة على الوباء والوقاية منه في كوريا الجنوبية أن الحصيلة الإجمالية للجائحة ارتفعت إلى 23216 إصابة، فيما استقرت حصيلة الوفيات عند 388 حالة وفاة.
