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This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 8:30 am: Japan stocks plunge around 4% Japan’s  plunged 3.97% in early trade as it returned from a holiday, following a selloff in U.S. stocks overnight. The Topix index also declined 3.92%. Shares in Australia also fell sharply, with

A nurse working in the isolation ward communicates with a co-worker on the talkie-walkie in Jinyintan Hospital, designated for COVID-19 patients, in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province Monday, Feb. 17, 2020. Feature China | Barcroft Media via Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in

South Korean health officials spray disinfectant in front of the Daegu branch of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus in the southeastern city of Daegu on February 21, 2020. Jung Yeon-je | AFP | Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 7:55 am: Hubei reports

This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 9:22 am: China reports 109 additional deaths China’s National Health Commission reported an additional 109 deaths, almost all in Hubei province. That brings the country’s death toll to 2,345 people, according to government data. As of the end

A medical staff takes temperature of a patient at a temporary hospital converted from “Wuhan Livingroom” in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province, Feb. 10, 2020. Xiong Qi | Xinhua | Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 8:22 am: 2 Australian passengers from

A worker at a factory in Nanjing sorting face masks being produced to satisfy increased demand during China’s COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, in China’s Jiangsu province. Stringer | AFP | Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 7:58 am: Hubei reports an additional 108

This photo taken on February 17, 2020 shows a member of the medical staff (L) doing a massage for a patient who has displayed mild symptoms of the COVID-19 coronavirus at an exhibition centre converted into a hospital in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province. STR | AFP | Getty Images This is a live

A man wears a protective mask as he ride bike in the street at Optical Valley on February 16, 2020 in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. Stringer | Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 7:00 am: Hubei province reports 93 additional deaths China’s

A thermal scanner deployed at the entrance to Singapore’s Chingay Parade amid the coronavirus outbreak. Chingay is an annual street parade that the country holds as part of its Lunar New Year celebrations. Suhaimi Abdullah l Getty Images With the ongoing coronavirus outbreak threatening to stall economic growth, Singapore’s government could roll out one of

A girl wearing a face mask plays on her scooter at a park in Beijing on February 15, 2020. Wang Zhao | AFP | Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 8.00 am: Hubei reports 139 additional deaths and 1,843 new cases Hubei’s

This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 8:05 am: China confirms 143 more deaths, 2,641 new cases China’s National Health Commission reported an additional 143 deaths nationwide, as well as 2,641 new confirmed cases as of Feb. 14. That tally includes Hubei, the epicenter of the

This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 7:55 am: Hubei reports 4,823 new cases China’s Hubei province reported an additional 116 deaths and 4,823 new confirmed cases as of the end of Feb. 13. Of the new cases, the government said that 3,095 were “clinically

This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 7:55 am: Hubei province reports 14,840 new cases China’s Hubei province reported an additional 242 deaths and 14,840 new cases as of Feb. 12. The province said it is starting to include “clinically diagnosed” cases in its figures

A doctor reads the CT scan images of 2019-nCoV patients in a hotel accommodating isolated people in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province Monday, Feb. 03, 2020. Feature China | Barcroft Media via Getty Images The new coronavirus that emerged from a seafood market in Wuhan, China likely originated in bats and then jumped to

A women wearing a protective mask and jacket pushes a bicycle on February 9, 2020 in Wuhan, China. Flights, trains and public transport including buses, subway and ferry services have been closed for eighteenth days. The number of those who have died from the Wuhan coronavirus, known as 2019-nCoV, in China has climbed to 813.

A woman sits outside wearing a protective mask on February 9, 2020 in Wuhan, China. Flights, trains and public transport including buses, subway and ferry services have been closed for eighteenth days. The number of those who have died from the Wuhan coronavirus, known as 2019-nCoV, in China has climbed to 813. Stringer | Getty

All times below are in U.S. eastern time. Read CNBC’s coverage from our Asia-Pacific and Europe teams overnight: Total cases: At least 34,000 as of Friday eveningTotal deaths: At least 722 worldwide as of Friday evening 9:08 a.m. France issues tougher travel warning to China France’s foreign office on Saturday issued new travel advice for

This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Eastern time. Total cases: More than 31,000 as of Friday morning.Total deaths: At least 636 worldwide as of Friday morning  8:3 am Canada Goose says travel restrictions are hurting sales  8:15 am: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says outbreak is not

This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Eastern time. Total cases: More than 28,000 as of Thursday morning.Total deaths: At least 565 worldwide as of Thursday morning 8:10 am: Russia reportedly rejects OPEC’s proposal to impose further oil cuts Russia is thought to be standing in the

A monitor displays Peloton Interactive Inc. signage during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) across from the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Peloton shares plummeted as much as 12% in extended trading Wednesday after the fitness company reported mounting losses and slower

Medical staff walk to the National Centre for Infectious Diseases building at Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore on January 31, 2020. Roslan Rahman | APF | Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 8:02 am: China reports total deaths of 490, and

Chinese residents line up to get a free protective mask at a local pharmacy on February 2, 2020 in Beijing, China. Kevin Frayer | Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 6:43 am: China’s Hubei province confirms additional 64 deaths and 2,345 cases

A woman wears a protective mask to prevent the spread of the SARS-like virus as she walks outside of the Forbidden city (back) after a snowfall in Beijing on February 2, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri | AFP | Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below in Beijing time.

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. Ezra Acayan | Getty Images All times below in U.S. eastern standard time. Roughly 2,100 new cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed in

Passengers wear face masks to protect against the spread of the Coronavirus as they arrive on a flight from Asia at Los Angeles International Airport, California, on January 29, 2020. Mark Ralston | AFP | Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Eastern time. 7:30

The World Health Organization said the fast-spreading coronavirus that’s infected more than 8,200 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. The announcement comes just hours after the U.S. confirmed its first human-to-human transmission of the virus,

People with protective face masks pass in front of a thermal scanner as they enter a shopping mall in Bangkok on January 29, 2020. Mladen Antonov | AFP | Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Eastern time. 7:36 am: Death toll of coronavirus climbs

A patient is transferred by an ambulance to the Infectious Disease Centre of Princess Margaret Hospital on January 22, 2020 in Hong Kong, China. Anthony Kwan | Getty Images This is a live blog. Check back for updates. 8:03 am: Death toll of coronavirus surpasses 100 The total number of cases of the coronavirus reached