BREAKING: Coronavirus toll rises to 56. The virus, which has spread overseas, has now infected at least 1,975 people in China, where all the deaths have been recorded.
The reports followed a State Department notice on its website that all essential personnel had been ordered to leave the city of 11 million.Xi addressed the issue Saturday at a special Communist party meeting where he called for stepped up moves to tackle the accelerating crisis.
Only authorized vehicles to carry supplies and for other needs would be permitted after that, the reports said. The woman was not symptomatic while flying, and Arwady told reporters at a Chicago news conference on Friday,"The CDC does not believe that, in the time before symptoms develop, the patients are able to be contagious."
While most cases have centered in China, an increasing number of cases have been confirmed in other places, including South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. Australia and Malaysia reported their first cases Saturday and Japan reported its third.
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