World: China's Hubei reports 70 new deaths on Feb 5 - health commission

A Chinese man wears a protective mask as he walks during a snowfall in an empty and shuttered commercial street on Feb. 5 in Beijing, China.

Tourists wears a protective mask at Galeao International Airport, north of the Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Feb. 5.

Chelyabinsk Airport employees take part in an exercise to evacuate aircraft passengers showing symptoms of the 2019-nCoV pneumonia-like coronavirus on Feb. 5 in Chelyabinsk, Russia.

A woman and child in facemasks walk in a park on of Feb. 5 in Wuhan, China.

People wearing face masks as a preventative measure following a coronavirus outbreak line up to purchase face masks from a makeshift stall after queuing for hours following a registration process during which they were given a pre-sales ticket, in Hong Kong on Feb. 5.

Visitors wearing masks walk through the Bukit Bintang district on Feb. 5 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Passengers looks out from their room while the World Dream cruiser is docked at the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal, Hong Kong on Feb. 5. Hong Kong authorities are keeping 3,600 passengers and crew members under quarantine on the cruise ship World Dream after three previous travelers were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus.

People in face masks walk in a street during a snowfall in Beijing, China on Feb. 5.

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China ’ s Hubei province, the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak, reported 70 new deaths and 2 987 new confirmed cases on Wednesday, the local health commission said in a notice on Thursday. The increase brings the total number of deaths in the province to 549 by the end of February 5 , with the total number of cases at Hubei in central China has been in virtual lock down for nearly two weeks, with its train stations and airports shut and its roads sealed off. The coronavirus was first identified in Hubei ’s provincial capital of Wuhan and is believed to have originated at a seafood market in the city.

China ’ s Hubei province, the epicenter of a coronavirus outbreak, reported 70 new deaths and 2,987 new confirmed cases on Wednesday, the local health commission said in a notice on Thursday. The number of deaths in the province on Wednesday was higher than the 65 reported the previous day, though the number of new cases fell slightly from 3,156. Hubei in central China has been in virtual lockdown for nearly two weeks, with its train stations and airports shut and its roads sealed off. (full story).

Workers lay beds in the Wuhan living room exhibition center, in Hubei Province, China, on Feb. 4. Wuhan has built "fangcang hospital" which is used to treat patients with mild pneumonia infected with new coronavirus outbreak.

Sylvie Briand, Director of global infectious hazard preparedness at the World Health Organization (WHO), attends a news conference on the new coronavirus outbreak in Geneva, Switzerland, on Feb. 4.

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, medical workers in protective suits help transfer the first group of patients into the newly-completed Huoshenshan temporary field hospital in Wuhan in China's Hubei province, on Feb. 4.

A passenger checks herself with a digital infrared forehead thermometer measurement device at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, on Feb. 4.

Workers set up beds at an exhibition centre that was converted into a hospital for Coronavirus treatment in Wuhan, in China's Hubei province, on Feb. 4.

Volunteers in protective suits disinfect a railway station as the country is hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus, in Changsha, Hunan province, China, on Feb. 4.

Workers make protective suits at the workshop of a company in Fuzhou, China's Fujian Province, on Feb. 4.

Stewardesses take temperatures of passengers as a preventive measure for the coronavirus on an Air China flight from Melbourne to Beijing before it land at Beijing Capital International Airport in China, on Feb. 4.

11 Americans aboard cruise ship in Japan among those infected with new coronavirus

Eleven Americans are among the dozens of people aboard a cruise ship moored in Japan who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, officials said. Since arriving at the Japanese port of Yokohama on Monday, the Diamond Princess has been quarantined at sea while all passengers and crew undergo health screenings. At least 61 people have tested positive for the newly identified coronavirus. The patients, who include elderly people and foreign nationals, were taken ashore to a hospital in the coastal prefecture of Kanagawa, according to Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

China ' s Hubei province, the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak, reported 70 new deaths and 2,987 new confirmed cases on Wednesday, the local health commission said in a notice on Thursday. Hubei in central China has been in virtual lockdown for nearly two weeks, with its train stations and airports shut and its roads sealed off. The coronavirus was first identified in Hubei 's provincial capital of Wuhan and is believed to have originated at a seafood market in the city.

China ' s Hubei province, the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak, reported 70 new deaths and 2,987 new confirmed cases on Wednesday, the local health commission said in a notice on Thursday. The increase brings the total number of deaths in the province to 549 by the end of Feb . Hubei in central China has been in virtual lockdown for nearly two weeks, with its train stations and airports shut and its roads sealed off. The coronavirus was first identified in Hubei 's provincial capital of Wuhan and is believed to have originated at a seafood market in the city.

A TV crew film a cruise ship Diamond Princess anchoring off the Yokohama Port Tuesday, on Feb. 4, in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Japanese health officials are conducting extensive medical checks on all 3,700 passengers and crew of the cruise ship that returned to the country after one passenger tested positive for the new coronavirus.

Medical workers hold a strike outside the Hospital Authority as they demand for Hong Kong to close its border with China to reduce the coronavirus spreading, in Hong Kong, on Feb. 4.

A medical worker wearing protective gear (C) waits to take the temperature of people in the entrance of Princess Margaret Hospital in Hong Kong on Feb. 4. Hong Kong became the second place outside of the Chinese mainland to report the death of a patient being treated for coronavirus that has so far claimed more than 400 lives.

Malaysian nationals being directed onto a bus by health officials in protective suits as they arrive at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, on Feb. 4, after being evacuated from China's Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak.

A dog wears a paper cup over its mouth on a street in Beijing on Feb. 4.

Workers set up beds at an exhibition centre that was converted into a hospital in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on Feb. 4. The Wuhan government said it plans to convert three existing venues, including a gymnasium and an exhibition centre, into hospitals to take in patients with mild symptoms of the new coronavirus that has so far claimed more than 400 lives.

Young men wear masks to protect against the new coronavirus as they take part in a conscription examination for the national service in South Korea, on Feb. 3.

Wuhan coronavirus: Deadliest day in outbreak as mainland China records 86 fatalities

Mainland China had its deadliest day in the coronavirus outbreak Friday, with authorities reporting 86 fatalities from the pneumonia-like illness that is paralyzing much of the country. A total of 722 people had died from the virus and 34,546 were infected in mainland China by the end of Friday, China's National Health Commission said. The majority of new cases were recorded in Hubei province and its capital, Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak. Authorities finished construction on a new hospital in Wuhan last week, and another is due to open in the coming days to treat the growing number of patients.

China ’ s Hubei province, the epicenter of a coronavirus outbreak, reported 70 new deaths and 2,987 new confirmed cases on Wednesday, the local health commission said in a notice on Thursday. The number of deaths in the province on Wednesday was higher than the 65 reported the previous day, though the number of new cases fell slightly from 3,156. Hubei in central China has been in virtual lockdown for nearly two weeks, with its train stations and airports shut and its roads sealed off. (full story).

People wear face masks while waiting to buy gold on the day of the God of Wealth on Feb. 3, in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Pedestrians wear face masks as they cross a road in Hong Kong, on Feb. 3.

Medical staff pose for photos with a patient who has been cured of 2019-nCoV and her husband who has stayed healthy in the 14-day quarantine in a hospital in Suining, China, on Feb. 3.

Travellers wearing facemasks arrive from various provinces at the Beijing Railway Station on Feb. 3, in Beijing, China.

An employee of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry in a medical mask waits for a Beijing-Moscow train to arrive at Yaroslavsky Railway Station on Feb. 3.

People wearing protective face masks visit the Durbar Square in Kathmandu, on Feb. 3.

Signs indicating that face masks are sold out are seen at a medical supply shop on Feb. 3, in Manila, Philippines.

People wearing masks are seen in the Mass Transit Railway in Hong Kong, on Feb. 3.

Military personnel go through disinfecting procedures prior to handleing Italian citizens repatriated from the coronavirus hot-zone of Wuhan, at the Mario De Bernardi military airport in Pratica di Mare, Rome, on Feb. 3.

Chinese nationals, whose flight was cancelled after the Philippine government imposed travel restrictions to and from China amid the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus, wait outside the closed ticketing office of China Eastern Airlines at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Feb. 3, in Manila, Philippines.

A passenger wears a face mask at Airport Tegel on Feb. 3, in Berlin, Germany.

Indonesians who arrived from Wuhan, are sprayed with antiseptic at Hang Nadim Airport in Indonesia on Feb. 2.

People wearing protective masks to prevent the spread of the SARS-like virus put a facemask on a snowman after a snowfall in Beijing on Feb. 2,

Staff members wearing protective masks check a passenger at Shanghai railway station in Shanghai on Feb. 2, as the country is hit by an outbreak of a new coronavirus.

Indonesian migrant workers wearing masks practice an instrument called "gendang" in Hong Kong on Feb. 2.

Indian nationals sitting in a bus are transported out of Indira Gandhi International Airport following their evacuation in New Delhi on Feb. 2.

Portuguese nationals who were in the coronavirus-stricken Chinese city of Wuhan are pictured at Figo Maduro military airbase in Lisbon on Feb. 2.

This aerial photo shows the Huoshenshan hospital, which means "Fire God Mountain", after handed over to China's army in Hubei province on Feb. 2, was given control of a nearly-finished field hospital that will treat patients at the epicentre of a deadly virus epidemic.

Young travelers arrive to LAX Tom Bradley International Terminal wearing medical masks for protection against the coronavirus outbreak on Feb. 2 in Los Angeles. The United States has declared a public health emergency and Foreign nationals who have been in China in the last two weeks and are not immediate family members of U.S. citizens or permanent residents will be barred from entering the U.S.

A woman wears a mask as a preventive measure against the coronavirus outbreak, in Bangkok on Feb. 3.

A woman wears a mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus as she walks on Feb. 2 at Chinatown in Bangkok.

Coronavirus quarantine ends for 195 people who flew from Wuhan to California

All 195 U.S. citizens, mostly diplomats and their families, were quarantined at the March Air Reserve Base in Riverside County since Jan. 29.Speaking Tuesday during a news conference at the air base, officials said none of the travelers, who have been isolated since Jan. 29, will need medical follow-ups and all will now be able to continue on with their daily lives.

An employee (L) puts a protective face mask on a child at a railway station on Feb. 2 in Hanoi, Vietnam. The death toll from China's coronavirus epidemic soared to 304 on Feb. 2, as an increasing number of countries imposed extraordinary Chinese travel bans to combat the spread of the disease.