US Japanese couple who visited Hawaii were diagnosed with coronavirus, and Delta is warning passengers on their flight

This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, yellow, emerging from the surface of cells, pink, cultured in the lab. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S.

North Korea 'clearly lying' about coronavirus cases, expert says

North Korea maintains that the coronavirus has not reached its borders, but one expert says "there is no way" that's true.Unverified reports about a quarantined person allegedly being executed by the country after visiting a public bath have emerged, as well as a potential first confirmed case, but the government remains steadfast in denying that the virus has reached its borders, which many experts have cast doubt on.

Officers wearing protective suits are seen near an airplane prepared for the U.S. passengers of the cruise ship Diamond Princess, where dozens of passengers were tested positive for coronavirus, at Haneda airport in Tokyo, Japan, on Feb. 17.

China sees rise in new virus cases, death toll rises by 105

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities on Monday reported a slight upturn in new virus cases and 105 more deaths for a total of 1,770 since the outbreak began two months ago. The 2,048 new cases followed three days of declines but was up by just 39 cases from the previous day's figure. Another 10,844 people have recovered from COVID-19, a disease caused by the new coronavirus, and have been discharged from hospitals, according to Monday's figures.The 2,048 new cases followed three days of declines but was up by just 39 cases from the previous day's figure. Another 10,844 people have recovered from COVID-19, a disease caused by the new coronavirus, and have been discharged from hospitals, according to Monday's figures.

Passengers of the cruise ship Diamond Princess board their plane, on Feb. 17.

People believed to be U.S. passengers look outside from one of the buses as they leave from Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, on Feb. 17.

Buses believed to carry the U.S. passengers leave at Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama, on Feb. 17.

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, centre, wearing a protective face mask waves as he inspects the novel coronavirus pneumonia prevention and control work at a neighbourhoods in Beijing, on Feb. 10.

Fourteen American cruise ship passengers with coronavirus among those evacuated to the U.S.

Health authorities are searching for passengers from a second cruise ship who could have been exposed to the virus. “We are in close coordination with some of the leading health experts from around the world,” Grant Tarling, Holland America’s chief medical officer, said in a statement. “These experts are working with the appropriate national health authorities to investigate and follow-up with individuals who may have come in contact with the guest.” An 83-year-old American woman who disembarked from the ship at Sihanoukville on Friday took a charter flight to Kuala Lumpur, along with 145 other passengers.

American evacuees from the coronavirus outbreak in China board a bus after arriving by flight to Eppley Airfield in Omaha, Neb., on Feb. 7. The evacuees are to be quarantined at Camp Ashland, a nearby Nebraska National Guard training base.

A photo of the late ophthalmologist Li Wenliang is seen with flower bouquets at the Houhu Branch of Wuhan Central Hospital in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on Feb. 7. - A Chinese doctor who was punished after raising the alarm about China's new coronavirus died from the pathogen on Feb. 7, sparking an outpouring of grief and anger over a worsening crisis.

A woman wears a plastic water bottle with a cutout to cover her face, as a preventative measure following a virus outbreak which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan, while walking on a footbridge in Hong Kong on Jan. 31.

A Guardia di Finanza boat patrol around the Costa Smeralda cruise ship docked in the Civitavecchia port 70km north of Rome on Jan. 30. More than 6,000 tourists were under lockdown aboard the cruise ship after two Chinese passengers were isolated over fears they could be carrying the coronavirus.

Airlines, officials trace path of couple diagnosed with coronavirus that flew from Hawaii

Delta and Hawaiian AIrlines are working with the CDC to trace the path of a couple who were diagnosed with coronavirus after returning from Hawaii.Hawaiian state health officials say the couple, who are in their 60s, were in Hawaii from Jan. 28 to Feb. 7 and tested positive after being hospitalized in Japan.

The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China, is seen in an illustration released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, on Jan. 29.

Paramilitary officers wearing face masks stand guard at the Tiananmen Gate, as the country is hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus, in Beijing, China on Jan. 27.

Airport personnel monitor a thermal scanner as passengers arrive at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay, Philippines, on Jan. 23.

Director-General of World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus takes part to a news conference after a meeting of the International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee for Pneumonia due to the Novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV in Geneva, Switzerland, on Jan. 22.

Travelers from China's Wuhan and other cities go through body temperature scanners at Narita international airport in Narita, near Tokyo, on Jan. 23.

Hospital director dies in China's Wuhan, epicentre of coronavirus outbreak

CHINA-HEALTH/DOCTOR (UPDATE 1):UPDATE 1-Hospital director dies in China's Wuhan, epicentre of coronavirus outbreakOfficers wearing protective suits are seen near an airplane prepared for the U.S. passengers of the cruise ship Diamond Princess, where dozens of passengers were tested positive for coronavirus, at Haneda airport in Tokyo, Japan, on Feb. 17.

Li Bin, center, deputy director of China's National Health Commission, waits as journalists raise their hands to ask questions during a press conference about a new type of coronavirus spreading in China at the State Council Information Office in Beijing, on Jan. 22.

The Wuhan Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, where a number of people related to the market fell ill with a virus, sits closed in Wuhan, China, on Jan. 21.

Medical staff transfer patients to Jinyintan hospital where patients infected with a new strain of Coronavirus identified as the cause of the Wuhan pneumonia outbreak are treated in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, on Jan. 20.

Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, right, speaks next to Wong Ka-hing, the Controller of the Centre for Health Protection of the Department of Health during a press conference at the Health Department in Hong Kong, on Jan. 11.