Key words : Chinese city lockdown
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Sunday marks one month since a de facto lockdown began for the coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan. Its residents are increasingly concerned about their future.
Health authorities in Hubei Province, where Wuhan is located, said on Sunday that 96 more people in the province had died due to infection with the new coronavirus. That brings the death toll to 2,441 in mainland China.
Upwards of 20,000 patients have been discharged from hospitals. But almost 2,500 others remain in serious condition in the hardest-hit province of Hubei, where Wuhan is situated.
Authorities in Wuhan have been strictly keeping people from leaving their homes, with an airport, train stations, and expressway gates closed to contain the spread of the virus.
Some food items are reportedly in short supply, leading to a surge in their prices.
Business activity has been gradually resuming outside of Hubei. But the province's government says it would postpone the restart of company operations to March 11.
Key words : now spread
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Health authorities in China say 109 more new coronavirus patients died on Friday, bringing the total number of fatalities to over 2,300. The number of infections in the country now exceeds 76,000. Most of them are in Hubei province where the outbreak began.
Meanwhile, some provinces have downgraded the public health emergency level, following a drop in the number of new cases.
The northeastern province of Liaoning announced on Saturday that it has lowered the level from the highest, level 1, to level 3 on a 4 tier scale.
The province says no new cases of infections have been reported since Monday.
The new coronavirus has now spread to about 30 countries and territories.
Key words : more than 100 Moon
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in has raised the country's alert level in response to the new coronavirus to the highest after the number of cases rose by more than 100 for three days in a row.
Moon raised the level to highest in the four-tier system on Sunday.
He also ordered the government to set up a task force led by Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun, and to provide support to medical institutions in the southern city of Daegu, where a mass infection occurred.
The health ministry says it confirmed 169 new cases on Sunday. The overall number of infected people has risen to 602. Five have died.
The ministry says more than half of the infected people have links with a church in Daegu.
Ministry officials believe the virus spread among worshippers who gathered in a closed and crowded space.
City authorities are conducting health checks on about 9,300 church members. Of these, around 1,270 have suspected symptoms of the infection.
The officials say they haven't been able to contact about 670 of the people who should be checked.
Key words : Italian 11 towns
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The Italian government has banned people from entering and leaving 11 towns with outbreaks of the new coronavirus.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte held a news conference on Saturday after a total of 71 cases of infection with the virus were confirmed in the northern regions of Lombardy and Veneto on Friday and Saturday.
The cases include two people in their 70s who died, and a 38-year-old man in Lombardy who was the first confirmed case in the country..
Conte announced the government will, for the time being, close 10 towns, about 60 kilometers from the city of Milan in Lombardy. He added that one other town in neighboring Veneto is also subject to the measure.
The government will deploy police to the towns to set up checkpoints aimed at blocking people from leaving the areas, which have a total population of over 50,000.
Authorities have closed schools and other public facilities in those towns. They are also calling on residents in the areas to stay home and are asking businesses to suspend their commercial activities.
Meanwhile, 19 Italians who disembarked from the virus-stricken Diamond Princess cruise ship returned to Italy by military plane on Saturday. A large number of infections took place on the vessel that was quarantined near Tokyo.
The 19 reportedly tested negative for the virus in Japan. But they will be isolated at a military facility for two weeks.
Key words : 770
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City officials of Sapporo in northern Japan say a resident has contracted the new coronavirus.
The officials say the man in his 70s did not travel abroad or have contact with other patients during the 14-day period before he began showing symptoms.
As of 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, 770 people in Japan were confirmed as infected.
Of them, 122 were either infected in Japan or were tourists from China, 634 were passengers or crew of a cruise ship, and 14 were people who returned from the Chinese city of Wuhan on flights chartered by the Japanese government.
Key words : got off
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A woman in her 60s in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, has tested positive for the new coronavirus after disembarking from the quarantined cruise ship docked near Tokyo.
On February 14, the woman on the Diamond Princess tested negative for the virus.
She got off the ship on Wednesday after the two-week quarantine period ended.
But Tochigi officials announced on Saturday that she has since been confirmed to be infected after undergoing another test.
This is the first time a passenger from the ship has tested positive in Japan after disembarking.
Key words : Israel Australia
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The last group of passengers to test negative and show no symptoms for the new coronavirus have disembarked from a quarantined cruise ship docked near Tokyo.
A man in his 70s said, " I just want to sit around and take a bath for now."
Another male passenger said, "I will stay at home without going out for a while."
970 people have left the Diamond Princess since the 14-day quarantine period ended on Wednesday. 634 have contracted the virus. On Thursday, two passengers died.
Anyone who tested negative but shared a cabin with an infected person is required to stay at a government-provided facility.
Officials are asking those who have returned home to monitor their health for two weeks and avoid going out.
Health officials and the ship's operator plan to discuss under what conditions the crew members will be allowed to disembark.
Among them, 78 are Indonesian. The country's president says he wants Japan to provide answers about their health. So far, four have been infected.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo said, "We have been asking Japanese government officials repeatedly about the situation but they have yet to respond. We hope they will swiftly inform us about their policy regarding the ship so that we can decide how to bring the Indonesian crew home."
Meanwhile, some Canadians who were on the ship arrived back in the country on Friday. The government says about 50 citizens who tested positive are being treated in Japanese hospitals.
Australian health authorities say two people from the vessel were confirmed to be infected after returning home. They initially tested negative, and are in stable condition.
An Israeli woman who was on the ship has also tested positive.
Officials from the country say she was one of 11 citizens onboard who returned on Friday. They say she was not infected in Israel and is the nation's first case.
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Key words : bank musashino
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Customers of an online bank and three regional banks have had problems using their services on Sunday.
SBI Sumishin Net Bank said most of its online banking functions stopped working around 10 a.m. on Sunday.
The bank said customers were unable to make online transfers or withdraw cash from ATMs.
Customers of Yamagata Bank, based in northern Yamagata Prefecture, were unable to use online banking or ATMs from around 9:30 a.m.
Musashino Bank in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, and Yamaguchi Bank in western Yamaguchi Prefecture reported similar problems.
The banks say the problems had mostly been resolved by Sunday evening.
The banks said they use a system developed by IBM Japan to manage transaction data, and it stopped working on Sunday morning.
IBM Japan says it is investigating the cause of the problem.
Key words : multiple media win
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Multiple media outlets in the US say Senator Bernie Sanders is certain to win the Nevada Democratic caucuses. The caucuses are the third nomination contest held by the party in the US presidential election.
Bernie Sanders said, "in Nevada, we have just put together a multi-generational, multi-racial coalition, which is going to not only win in Nevada, but which is going to sweep this country."
Sanders is a strong critic of economic inequality. He's calling for universal healthcare, free tuition at public colleges and universities and forgiving all student debt. He's focusing on attracting the support of young voters.
Sanders and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg essentially tied for victory in the earlier Iowa caucuses. Sanders then won the New Hampshire primary. He now has the highest support rate among Democratic candidates across the nation.
Winning in a state with many non-white voters like Nevada indicates that Sanders has a broad support base. The victory also gives him momentum ahead of so-called "Super Tuesday" on March 3, when Democratic presidential hopefuls will compete in vote-heavy states like California and Texas.
Key words : Thailand disband protest
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Hundreds of Thai students and citizens have rallied in Bangkok to protest the disbanding of an opposition party that has been calling for an end to military control of politics.
The Constitutional Court ordered the dissolution of the Future Forward Party on Friday. The election commission had accused it of taking unlawful funds.
The party became the third largest force in parliament in an election last March. It has been a vocal opponent of the current government, led by former army chief Prayut Chan-o-cha.
At the rally at a university on Saturday, students said an independent body has succumbed to a dictator and that there is no longer any justice in Thailand. They asked if they now have to live in an unfair society.
Participants were seen writing messages of protest on a white cloth placed at the venue.
One student said the hopes of democracy-loving citizens have been crushed by the court decision.
The Constitutional Court has ordered the dissolution of political parties in the past. Critics at home and abroad have questioned its neutrality.
Amnesty International has criticized the latest court decision, saying it "illustrates how the authorities use judicial processes to intimidate, harass and target political opposition."
Key words : afghanistan 60 percent
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A UN report says the annual number of civilian casualties in the conflict in Afghanistan in 2019 topped 10,000 for the sixth straight year.
The report published on Saturday puts last year's casualty number at 10,392. Of them, 3,403 were fatalities and 6,989 others were injuries. The total was roughly 600 lower than the figure from the previous year.
The report notes that about 60 percent of the casualties were caused by anti-government elements, including the Taliban.
It adds that their use of improvised explosive devices in "both suicide and non-suicide attacks continued at extreme levels."
The report also cites airstrikes by international military forces and search operations by Afghan forces as contributing to the high number of casualties.
The Taliban issued a statement, saying the report lacks impartiality, as it was supervised by the United States.
The statement says the biggest factor for casualties is attacks by US and Afghan government forces. It adds the Taliban have witnessed many civilians fall victim to air raids and other operations by the US military.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Friday that US negotiators came to an understanding with the Taliban on a significant and nationwide reduction in violence across Afghanistan.
He said that upon successful implementation, the US will be ready to sign a peace agreement on February 29.
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