Photo of a bus carrying passengers from the quarantined Diamond Princess

16 Cruise Ship Evacuees Being Moved to US Hospitals

SEATTLE — Eleven Americans who were brought to the U.S. from a quarantined cruise ship have been moved to hospitals, because delayed Japanese test results showed they had the new virus that caused an outbreak in China, officials said Thursday. Five other pe...
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China Locked Down 50 Million People and Has to Keep Them Fed

BEIJING — Carrying permits demanding “fast passage,” truck drivers rushed a 560-ton shipment of disinfectant from eastern China to Wuhan, the locked-down city of 11 million people at the center of a vast effort to contain a new viral disease. Outside the me...
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Arizona, California Cases Push US Tally of New Virus to 5

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. has five confirmed cases of the new virus from China, all among people who traveled to the city at the center of the outbreak, health officials said Sunday. Two new cases were reported Sunday — one in Los Angeles County in California ...