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Starbucks' results top estimates but coronavirus slows sales
It was a happy holiday at Starbucks, but the company's sales momentum could start to slow due to the coronavirus outbreak in China.
Japan sends plane to China to evacuate citizens
Japan is sending its first chartered flight to China to evacuate Japanese citizens from Wuhan, the city at the center of a deadly viral outbreak. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday that the evacuees will be allowed to go home after quarantine procedures at the airport, but asked them to remain in their houses for about two weeks. Officials say the plane, which is leaving Japan on Tuesday, will also take face masks, hazmat suits and other relief goods for Chinese and foreign residents who remain in the worst-affected province.
South Korea to evacuate 700 citizens from Wuhan
The Chinese Embassy in Copenhagen is demanding that one of Denmark's largest newspaper apologize for a cartoon on the outbreak of a new deadly virus which it considers "an insult to China."
China postpones school semester amid novel coronavirus outbreak
China's Ministry of Education (MOE) announced that the 2020 spring semester for schools will be postponed due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.
China sends 6,000 medics to Hubei in virus fight
China has sent nearly 6,000 medical workers from across the country to Hubei Province in the fight against the novel coronavirus outbreak, a health official said Tuesday.
China counts 106 virus deaths as US, others move to evacuate
China's death toll from a new viral disease that is causing mounting global concern rose by 25 to at least 106 on Tuesday as the United States and other governments prepared to fly their citizens out of the locked-down city at center of the outbreak.
Hubei suspends passport application to curb coronavirus outbreak
The exit and entry department in central China's Hubei Province has suspended the services for the application of ordinary passports and exit-entry permits and endorsements for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan to better control the spread of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
Chinese scientists provide support to control coronavirus outbreak
Chinese scientists are conducting research to help provide timely analysis of the epidemic situation and support to formulate targeted strategies for the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus outbreak.
China's Wuhan to ban motor vehicles to prevent coronavirus outbreak
Ordinary motor vehicles will be banned from roads from Sunday in the downtown areas in Wuhan, the hardest-hit city of the novel coronavirus outbreak in central China, the local government said.
Coronavirus virus: ‘Officials in regular contact’ with Bangladeshi students in China
Dhaka, Jan 25 (UNB) - Bangladesh Embassy in Beijing has said its officials are in regular contact with the Bangladeshi students living there to assist them following an outbreak of deadly Coronavirus.