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22m ago
Authorities in Taiwan have put out an appeal to locate three people who travelled from
10:01
Hong Kong to Taipei on February 8 and who went missing during home quarantine.
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Xinqi Su, an AFP correspondent in Hong Kong, has tweeted that authorities in the
Taiwanese capital has publicised information about the individuals and asked the public to
help search for them. Updated at 10.02am GMT
32m ago White House official has called on Beijing to be more transparent over its handling
A senior
09:51
of the outbreak amid moves by Chinese authorities to expand ‘wartime’ measures to limit its
spread.
Here’s footage of Larry Kudlow, the National Economic Council director, expressing US
“disappointment” in the response of China to the coronavirus outbreak.
He said it was a concern for the wellbeing of people in China, adding that the virus had been
contained in the US.
41m agohas vowed to step up testing and efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus after
Japan
09:41
suffering its first death and finding new cases, including a doctor and at least one taxi driver,
in different parts of the country.
The biggest cluster of coronavirus infections outside China is linked to a cruise liner
quarantined in a Japanese port, with 218 people from the ship confirmed as infected and
taken off to hospital.
On Friday, some of the ship’s passengers were allowed to disembark - with priority given to
older passengers who have been confined to windowless cabins - to complete their
quarantine on shore.
A passengers is seen on a balcony of the Diamond Princess cruise

ship, with around 3,600 people quarantined onboard due to
fears of the new coronavirus, at the Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal
in Yokohama port on February 14. Photograph: Charly
Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images
Japan’s NHK public television network said that a female taxi driver on the southern island
of Okinawa had tested positive for the virus, and the chances were high she had contact
with passengers from the ship during a February 1 call at a port.
“We will stay in touch with local governments and expand our testing procedures and
treatment of patients in order to prevent the spread,” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told
reporters, a day after a task force on the disease drew up measures to deal with it, including
spending 10.3 billion yen from budget reserves.
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, second left, speaks at a

meeting against a new coronavirus, at his official residence in
Tokyo. Photograph: Yoshitaka Sugawara/AP
51m ago
Investors have reassessing the potential economic impact of the virus, it appears from
09:32
movement in gold trading.
Gold dropped off a more than one-week high on Friday as hopes for global measures to
counter the coronavirus outbreak increased appetite for equities, according to Reuters.
However, analysts said that interest in gold remains undimmed as the death toll in China’s
Hubei province continues to rise.
1h ago
Florists across Hong Kong say their business is down as much as 50 percent compared with
09:21
last year, but masks and alcohol sanitisers have emerged as new favourite Valentine gifts for
lovers, reports Verna Yu in Hong Kong for the Guardian.
A survey conducted by dating agency HK Romance on 572 men and women shows that
masks and alcohol sanitisers are the most wished for Valentine gifts for women this year,
with 30 percent wanting those, compared with 18 percent wanting flowers, 14 percent
wanting jewelry or watches and 9 percent for flights and hotel stays.
For men, 32 percent want masks and alcohol sanitisers, while 19 percent don’t want
anything and 11 percent want electronic products. The dating agency says it plans to host
classes showing people how to make DIY masks as many simply cannot get hold of them.
Masks, alcoholic sanitisers, disinfectants and even toilet rolls and rice have become prized
commodities in Hong Kong for days amid the coronavirus outbreak. Even public hospitals
are running out of masks and protective gear, prompting widespread anxiety. The
coronavirus epidemic has killed more than 1,350 in China, with one fatality in Hong Kong,
while nearly 64,000 people have been infected.
Amid the grim atmosphere, 31 percent of men and 32 percent of women say they will stay
home this year to avoid infection while 27 percent say they will go out for dinner anyway.
Concerts and events across Hong Kong have been cancelled due to the outbreak while many
shops and restaurants close early.
Children wear face masks on Valentine’s Day in Hong Kong, China

February 14, 2020. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu Photograph: Tyrone
Siu/Reuters
1h ago
Chinese health officials have been talking about the impact of the outbreak on frontline
09:12
health workers, 1,716 of whom have been infected.
Six had died as of Tuesday, with the number of infected staff rising, according to the Chinese
health commission vice minister, Zeng Yixin,
“The duties of medical workers at the front are indeed extremely heavy; their working and
resting circumstances are limited, the psychological pressures are great, and the risk of
infection is high,” Zeng told a news conference.
Chinese officials and hospitals have repeatedly spoken of a shortage of protective

equipment, including face masks.
Footage earlier this month of government officials in Wuhan appearing to take face masks
intended for health workers has fuelled a growing wave of anger over how Chinese
authorities have handled the outbreak.
Images of medical staff making protective equipment out of rubbish bags, sleeping in
hospitals, and crying in frustration and exhaustion have dominated Chinese social media
over the last two weeks, inspiring an outpouring of sympathy and donations of supplies.
1h ago
Concern about the impact on Asian financial hubs has been heightened by the news that
09:02
HSBC and Royal Dutch Shell have been sending staff home in Hong Kong and Singapore after
contact with people infected by the coronavirus.
HSBC, which employs 21,000 people in Hong Kong, said on Friday that one of its employees
has been placed in government quarantine after “close contact” with relatives diagnosed
with the coronavirus.
The bank is also making contact with staff who may have recently come in close contact
with the person and will advise them to observe 14-day self-care at home, according to the
Straits Times, which referred to a memo confirmed by a Hong Kong-based spokesman.
“All employees have been reminded to be mindful of hygiene procedures and to stay at
home or see a doctor if they feel unwell in any way,” the spokeswoman said.
“HSBC will continue to closely monitor the development of case and stay in close contact
with health authorities.”
A couple wearing masks embrace in a train on Valentine’s Day in

Hong Kong, China February 14, 2020. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu
Photograph: Tyrone Siu/Reuters
2h ago
A senior White House official has called on Beijing to be more transparent over its handling
08:49
of the coronavirus outbreak as Chinese authorities expanded “wartime” measures to limit
its spread, reports Lily Kuo is the Guardian’s Beijing bureau chief
Casualties from coronavirus reached nearly 1,400, with more than 5,000 new cases reported
on Friday, dampening optimism that the virus will soon be contained.
At a meeting of senior leaders in Beijing leading the government’s response to the crisis,
officials called for other areas to “adopt quarantine and rescue measures equal to that of
Wuhan”, which has been under lockdown for more than two weeks, including centralising
and quarantining patients.
The meeting, held on Thursday and chaired by premier Li Keqiang called on Wuhan to
“speed up” classifying and quarantining residents suspected or confirmed of contracting the
virus. It came as a top White House official called on Beijing to be more open.
2h
Theago
first group of French nationals repatriated from China due to the coronavirus outbreak
08:15
returned to the outside world today after two weeks in quarantine, Reuters reports.
None of the 181 involved - who had been flown home from Wuhan, the epicentre of the
epidemic - tested positive for the virus, local health officials said.
“There have been no problems ...but people are happy that it’s over,” Marc Zyltman, Red
Cross head at the southern holiday resort of Carry-Le-Rouet where they were quarantined,
told reporters.
A further 157 people remain in quarantine in southern France, of whom 122 will be allowed
home on Feb. 16 and the remainder on Febuary 23.
France has recorded 11 cases of the virus, out of a global total of 63,851, of whom the vast
majority are in China. The epidemic has killed close to 1,400 people.
A bus carrying French citizens repatriated from Wuhan leaves the

Vacanciel hotel club resort, where they had been quarantined for
14 days, in Carry-le-Rouet, southern France, 14 February 2020.
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A passengers is seen on a balcony of the Diamond Princess cruise

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, second left, speaks at a

Children wear face masks on Valentine’s Day in Hong Kong, China

Chinese oﬃcials and hospitals have repeatedly spoken of a shortage of protective

A couple wearing masks embrace in a train on Valentine’s Day in

A bus carrying French citizens repatriated from Wuhan leaves the

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