▶️ As of Wednesday night, China says a total of 28,248 cases have been confirmed and 563 people have died in the country.
▶️ Health officials in Wisconsin confirmed its first case of coronavirus Wednesday, raising the total number of cases in the U.S. to 12.
▶️ The virus has been confirmed in 191 cases in 24 countries outside China.
▶️ Chinese scientists are reporting preliminary success with a new approach for treating patients with the coronavirus: an antiviral drug used for treating influenza and an anti-H.I.V. drug. China has applied for a new patent on an experimental Gilead Sciences Inc. drug that its scientists believe might fight the coronavirus.
▶️ Four of the 167 Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China, to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in Southern California are being tested for the coronavirus, the CDC said Wednesday night. The four people tested had either a fever or a cough.
▶️ Two groups of Americans being evacuated from the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak will be quarantined in Nebraska and Texas, U.S. health officials said Wednesday.
▶️ U.S. health authorities are preparing for several more plane-loads of evacuees from Wuhan.
▶️ The Chinese medical technology firm BGI Group said it has opened a lab in Wuhan, where the outbreak is centered, that can test 10,000 samples a day to diagnose the coronavirus there.
▶️ Two newborn babies tested positive for coronavirus in Wuhan after their mothers were infected, China Central Television reported.
▶️ Japan’s health ministry said ten more people on board the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship have tested positive for the new coronavirus, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 20.
▶️ Thousands of passengers were quarantined Wednesday on another cruise ship, this one docked in Hong Kong, after three recent passengers tested positive for the new coronavirus.
▶️ Illinois suspects enter Walmart with ‘Caution I have the Coronavirus’ sign and spray substance on $7K worth of produce
▶️ FDA approves use of coronavirus diagnostic test outside CDC headquarters. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started shipping new test kits that can detect the coronavirus on site to 200 laboratories in the U.S. and 200 others outside the country.
▶️ Hundreds of millions of chickens in China are at risk of being wiped out as the shutdowns have hit supply chains.
▶️ Tokyo Olympics organizers “seriously worried” about impact of virus.
▶️ The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said Wednesday it will commit as much as $100 million to bolster the international response to the novel coronavirus.
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