Police officers in plainclothes raid a medical supply shop for allegedly hoarding and overpricing face masks, as public fear over China's Wuhan Coronavirus grows, on January 31, 2020 in Manila, Philippines.
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2:00 pm: Virus outbreak still largely centered in Hubei, WHO reports
A World Health Organization report on Saturday said the outbreak is still largely centered in the Hubei Province in China. About 60.5% of all China cases since the start of the outbreak are from Hubei Province, and the remainder are from 33 other provinces, regions and cities, according to the report.
The second largest number of cases are from the Zhejiang Province. Furthermore, 101 of the 132 cases confirmed outside of China were people who had traveled to China in the 14 days before the onset of the virus.
1:00 pm: Case of the virus confirmed in Massachusetts
A case of the virus has been confirmed in Boston, Massachusetts,[1] in a man in his 20s who recently traveled to Wuhan, China, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced Saturday. So far, eight cases have been confirmed in the U.S: three people in California, two in Illinois and one each in Washington state, Arizona and Massachusetts.
11:30 am: Delta accelerates plans to suspend all U.S.-China flights
Delta said it will accelerate its plan to temporarily suspend flights[2] between the U.S. and China to Feb. 2, based on new U.S. requirements that deny entry to foreigners who have visited China in the past two weeks.
The last China-bound Delta flight from the U.S. leaves Feb. 1, and the last returning flight from...