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Diamond Princess evacuations begin as Japan warns outbreak ‘entering new phase’. Follow latest updatesRussian court orders woman who fled quarantine back to hospitalWhat is coronavirus and what should I do if I have symptoms?Tokyo marathon cancels mass race over coronavirus scareShare your experiences5.23pmGMTChina ’s president Xi Jinping spelled out his plan to contain the coronavirus crisis at a meeting of the core Chinese leadership today, Reuters reports.In the speech, Xi admitted there were “shortcomings” in China’s emergency response systems and said local officials would be punished if they failed to “take responsibility” or implement directives.5.04pmGMTA Pakistani international student on a university campus in Wuhan, the city at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak in China, has told of how he and other international students have been ordered not to leave their dormitories.More than 100 foreign students at Wuhan ’s Zhongnan University of Economics and Law had been allowed to visit grocery stores for one hour a week to purchase basic necessities.We try to avoid talking to each other because we are scared.Face-to-face contact is limited and most of the time I stayed in my room. We speak over the internet.They have basically told us if one of us gets infected, it will spread quickly to everyone else as we live in close proximity. At the moment we don ’t know if anyone is infected or not, we are so afraid. It still feels like a worst nightmare.All...
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