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Researchers from Northeastern University and elsewhere have launched online maps that track the spread and risk of the new coronavirus outbreak. The declaration comes after a 13-fold rise in the number of cases outside China in the past two weeks, and a trebling of countries affected — but does not change WHO strategy for tackling spread of the virus, director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in an 11 March press briefing.
BEIJING: The death toll in China 's novel coronavirus has gone up to nine with the confirmed infection cases sharply rising to 440, the health authorities said on Wednesday, warning that the disease could spread further in the ongoing Chinese holiday season during which millions travel at home and abroad.



The World Health Organization says the coronavirus outbreak has become a pandemic Its director general says the virus that causes the respiratory illness can still be fought but some countries are struggling with a lack of resources and some with a lack of resolve.
Investors in Asia-Pacific markets remained worried about the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on global growth prospects, taking cues from the overnight performance worldwide coronavirus status live update on Wall Street where stocks plummeted Australia's benchmark ASX 200 fell 7%, the Nikkei 225 in Japan was down 6.98% and South Korea's Kospi index declined 6.15%.

A Beijing-based intensive care doctor now working in Wuhan - the city at the epicenter of China's coronavirus outbreak - says designated hospitals in the city are seeing an increasing number of empty beds after a large number of virus patients were discharged.
Messonnier, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said these people should make sure they have supplies on hand such as medications and groceries and avoid going out more than needed and cancel or reschedule non-essential travel.

Sun Caijun, an infectious-disease researcher also at Sun Yat-sen University, says that he would have preferred the virus be named clustered acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (CARS-CoV) or rapid spread respiratory syndrome coronavirus (RARS-CoV), given the virus's quick spread.