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Medical team members prepare to board the flight to Wuhan of Hubei Province at Changshui International Airport in Kunming, in China's Yunnan Province, on Feb. 20. The 7th batch of 176 medical personnel from Yunnan to Hubei departed on Thursday to help the battle against the novel coronavirus.

Vehicles carrying passenger from the cruise ship Diamond Princess arrive at the newly-built public housing Chun Yeung Estate for quarantine, following the outbreak of the new coronavirus, in Hong Kong, China, on Feb. 20.

Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers pose during an emergency meeting with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the coronavirus outbreak in Vientiane, Laos, on Feb. 20.

A man holds a Ukrainian state flag during a protest against the arrival of a plane carrying evacuees from China's Hubei province hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the village of Novi Sanzhary in Poltava region, Ukraine, on Feb. 20.

A Ukrainian passenger evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan, looks though a bus window outside Novi Sarzhany, Ukraine, on Feb. 20.

Adeline Danneels (L), CNRS technician and Sandrine Belouzard, virologist and researcher, at work in high-level P3 biosafety security laboratory at the Pasteur Institute of Lille on Feb. 20, in Lille, France. The research institute has sequenced the genome of Coronavirus 2019-nCoV using blood samples taken from the first confirmed French cases of the virus. The institute's scientists will now focus on developing how the virus works, treatments and a possible vaccine.

A Chinese tourist (front right), who was tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus and was isolated for treatment, receives a kiss from Sri Lankan Health Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi and medical staff after she was discharged from the hospital near Colombo on Feb. 19. The 43-year-old woman, the first and only COVID-19 patient in Sri Lanka, was admitted to the hospital on January 25 and tested positive for COVID-19 two days later.

A bus carrying the passengers from the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship leaves a port in Yokohama, Japan, on Feb. 19. Passengers tested negative for COVID-19 started disembarking on Wednesday.

A handout photo made available by Taiwan Ministry of Defense shows Taiwanese military from the 33rd Chemical Group 6th Army Corps personnel sanitizing the Wuhan evacuees quarantine facility, at an undisclosed location in Taiwan, on Feb. 19. Taiwanese nationals and their family members who were evacuated from Wuhan to Taiwan earlier this month, were quarantined here for 14 days.

A passenger (R) leaves on foot after dismembarking the Diamond Princess cruise ship (background) in quarantine due to fears of the new COVID-19 coronavirus, at the Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama on Feb. 19.

China's Ambassador to New Zealand, Wu Xi, speaks during a Chinese New Year celebration at Parliament on Feb. 19 in Wellington, New Zealand. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and China's Ambassador Wu Xi, acknowledged the backdrop of the Coronavirus outbreak on the New Year celebrations as concerns continue to increase over the spread of the virus.

A computer image created by Nexu Science Communication together with Trinity College in Dublin, shows a model structurally representative of a betacoronavirus which is the type of virus linked to COVID-19, better known as the coronavirus linked to the Wuhan outbreak, on Feb. 18.

The building housing the biocontainment unit at Nebraska Medical Center is seen in this photo on Feb. 18 in Omaha, Nebraska. The center is treating patients potentially exposed to a viral outbreak of the COVID-19 virus.

A drone operated by the Suwon municipal government flies around Changyong Middle School spraying disinfectant as a preventative measures against coronavirus outbreak , in Suwon, South Korea on Feb. 18

A Chinese man wears a protective mask as he sits near closed shops in a commercial street on Feb. 18, in Beijing, China. Apple said Monday that it did not expect to meet its quarterly revenue targets due to the coronavirus outbreak in China.

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People on a deck of the Westerdam cruise ship watch a helicopter take off in Sihanoukville on Feb. 18, as authorities checked if any passengers that remained could have the COVID-19 coronavirus.

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, patients infected with the coronavirus take rest at a temporary hospital converted from Wuhan Sports Center in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, on Feb. 17.

Workers go about their duties at a section of the Leishenshan Hospital, the newly-built makeshift hospital for novel coronavirus patients, in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on Feb. 18. The first group of patients infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus was discharged from Leishenshan Hospital on Feb. 18, according to local media.

Coronavirus Live Updates: China Is Tracking Travelers From Hubei

Text this number to tell the Chinese authorities everywhere you’ve been recently. To combat the spread of the coronavirus, Chinese officials are using a combination of technology and policing to track movements of citizens who may have visited Hubei Province. Mobile phone owners in China get their service from one of three state-run telecommunications firms, which this week introduced a feature for subscribers to send text messages to a hotline that generates a list of provinces they have recently visited.That has created a new way for the authorities to see where citizens have traveled.

A man holding his mobile phone walks past a poster by Italian urban artist Salvatore Benintende depecting Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa wearing a protective facemask and holding a mobile phone reading "Mobile World Virus" in a street of Barcelona on Feb. 18, a week after the World Mobile Congress was cancelled due to fears stemming from the coronavirus that sparked an exodus of industry heavyweights.

Buses believed to carry the passengers of the cruise ship Diamond Princess, where dozens were tested positive for coronavirus, leave at Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Japan, on Feb. 18.

A man wearing a face mask walks past a statue with a face mask, following an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Beijing, China on Feb. 18

The air force sent the medical workers and supplies to Wuhan at the 4th time with transport aircrafts to fight against the novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan on Feb. 17.

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.

U.S. Will Evacuate Americans From Cruise Ship Quarantined in Japan

YOKOHAMA, Japan — The United States will evacuate Americans from the cruise ship that has been quarantined for more than a week in Japan because of coronavirus infections on board, the United States Embassy in Tokyo said on Saturday. A chartered flight will arrive on Sunday for those who want to return to the United States, according to a letter from the embassy emailed to American passengers and crew members. Hundreds of Americans are on the ship. require(["medianetNativeAdOnArticle"], function (medianetNativeAdOnArticle) { medianetNativeAdOnArticle.

A sign advertising surgical masks is displayed in the Chinatown, Singapore, on Feb. 17. Due to high demand there is a shortage of masks across the country, the number of masks a person can purchase are limited by different shopkeepers.

People wear face masks and plastic raincoats as a protection from COVID-19 coronavirus at Shanghai railway station, in China on Feb. 17.

Chinese students and their supporters hold a memorial for Dr Li Wenliang, who was the whistleblower of the coronavirus, Covid-19, on Feb. 15, in Westwood, California.

A medical worker holds the baby girl with no infection born by a woman infected with novel coronavirus pneumonia in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, on Feb. 15.

Cured COVID-19 patients wave goodbye to medical workers, at the 'Wuhan Livingroom' makeshift hospital in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, on Feb. 15.

A health worker measures the body temperature of a person during the heavy snowfall amid coronavirus fears, in Fuyang City, China, on Feb. 15.

An Indonesian student (L) hugging her relative as she arrives after being quarantined following the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, at the Juanda International airport, in Sidoarjo, East Java province, on Feb. 15.

A worker carts an empty bin used for medical waste after unloading it at a storage facility at the Youan Hospital in Beijing on Feb. 14. Youan Hospital is one of twenty hospitals in Beijing treating Coronavirus patients. Six health workers have died from the Coronavirus (COVID-19 ) in China and more than 1,700 have been infected, health officials said on February 14, underscoring the risks doctors and nurses have taken due to shortages of protective gear.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd L) and Health Minister Katsunobu Kato (L) attend a meeting of the Coronavirus (COVID-19 ) infectious disease control headquarters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Feb. 14. Japan on February 14 began allowing elderly passengers who test negative for the virus to leave a quarantined cruise ship and finish their isolation in government-designated lodging.

Students gesture with heart-shaped signs during an activity showing support for China's fight against the novel Coronavirus at a school on Feb. 14 in Ayutthaya province, Thailand.

Passengers react after they disembarked from the MS Westerdam, back, at the port of Sihanoukville, Cambodia, on Feb. 14. Hundreds of cruise ship passengers long stranded at sea by virus fears cheered as they finally disembarked Friday and were welcomed to Cambodia. China on Friday reported another sharp rise in the number of people infected with a Coronavirus (COVID-19), as the death toll neared 1,400.

Passengers on board the Westerdam cruise ship look on in Sihanoukville on Feb. 14, where the liner on February 13 docked after being refused entry at other Asian ports due to fears of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Cambodia's strongman premier Hun Sen welcomed on February 14 the passengers of a US cruise ship blocked from several Asian ports over fears of a deadly new virus.

A man wears a gas mask as he holds a bouquet of flowers, following the outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Valentine’s Day in Hong Kong on Feb. 14.

This photo taken on Feb. 13 shows a train attendant gesturing to medical staff leaving for Wuhan in Nanchang, China's central Jiangxi province. The death toll from the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic neared 1,400 on Feb. 14, as the United States complained of a "lack of transparency" from Beijing over its handling of a crisis that has fueled global panic.

Jay Butler, Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases addresses the media about response to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19 ) as Senior Adviser Ed Rouse looks on, at the Emergency Operations Center inside The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on Feb. 13 in Atlanta, United States.

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.

China sees drop in new virus cases, two Japan cruise passengers die

China on Thursday touted a big drop in new cases of the coronavirus as a sign it has contained the epidemic, but fears grew abroad after two former passengers of a quarantined cruise ship died in Japan and a cluster of infections increased in South Korea. A Chinese man wears a protective mask as he sits near closed shops in a commercial street on Feb. 18, in Beijing, China. Apple said Monday that it did not expect to meet its quarterly revenue targets due to the coronavirus outbreak in China.

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.

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.

‘I Felt Like Crying’: Coronavirus Shakes China’s Expecting Mothers

HONG KONG — The hospital waiting room was filled with dozens of women wearing homemade hazmat suits. Their hair was tucked tightly under shower caps. Their rain ponchos zipped taut over winter coats. All of the women, anxious and pregnant during the coronavirus outbreak, had been waiting hours to see the same doctor. “I don’t feel at ease,” said Vigor Liu, who is five months pregnant with her first child. After waiting for three hours, Ms. Liu finally saw the doctor for a brief 10-minute conversation. His advice: stop reading the news.

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.

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.

Trump rails against Dems 'wasting time' amid coronavirus threat

As his administration is working to organize its response to the coronavirus threat in the United States, President Trump slammed Democrats.A series of late-night tweets marked the latest exchange between the White House and congressional Democrats over the outbreak, with each side simultaneously urging the other not to politicize the potential crisis yet also taking shots at press conferences and on social media — complicating efforts to work together.