Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, plans to build another 19 makeshift hospitals to receive more infected patients, local authorities said Friday (Feb 21). Read More (straitstimes)
Six Italians have tested positive for the coronavirus in the northern Italian region of Lombardy, a local official said on Friday in the first known cases of local transmission in Italy of the potentially deadly illness. Read More (thestar)
The government has banned all exports of surgical facemasks to ensure an adequate supply to meet domestic demand while the Covid-19 virus threat persists, the Central Committee for Prices of Goods and Services announced on Friday (Feb 21). Read More (thestar)
The American cruise ship passenger who tested positive for the Covid-19 in Malaysia is now clear of the coronavirus. Read More (thestar)
Malaysia will be sending another plane to Wuhan to evacuate its citizens from the city in China on Feb 25. Read More (thestar)
DAEGU, South Korea (AFP): South Korea confirmed 52 more cases of novel coronavirus on Friday (Feb 21) as the number of infections linked to a religious sect in Daegu spiked, making it the worst-infected country outside China. Read More (thestar)
BEIJING: The death toll in China from the coronavirus epidemic rose to 2,236 on Friday after 118 more people died, most of them in the hard-hit epicentre province of Hubei, the government said. Read More (thesundaily)
Dozens of protesters in a Ukrainian town have attacked buses carrying evacuees from coronavirus-hit China. Read More (bbc)
Malaysia continues to show improvement in the Covid-19 situation as two more patients of the coronavirus have recovered. Read More (thestar)
TOKYO (Reuters) - Newly released data from a Japanese research institute appears to back the government's case that its quarantine strategy for the Diamond Princess cruise ship was successful in stemming contagion of the coronavirus among passengers. Read More (thestar)
Singapore reported one new confirmed COVID-19 case on Thursday (Feb 20), bringing the number of cases in the country to 85, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) in a daily update. Read More (channelnewsasia)
A hospital in Cheongdo, North Gyeongsang Province, could emerge as the new cluster of COVID-19 outbreak in South Korea, after a total of 15 people, including a man who died Wednesday, were confirmed to have contracted the virus. Read More (thestar)
Yonhap news agency says South Korea has reported its first death from a new coronavirus. Read More (thestar)
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Immigration officers have issued 77 stay-home notices as of noon on Wednesday (Feb 19), 12 hours after the scheme kicked in. Read More (thestar)
A former passenger on the cruise ship MS Westerdam who tested positive for the Covid-19 coronavirus in Malaysia having left the vessel has led to fears that other passengers who have also moved on might have been exposed to the virus. Read More (bbc)