The Nikkei Asian Review is
tracking the spread of the new
coronavirus that originated in the central
Chinese city of Wuhan.
Global cases have reached 827,419, according to the
World Health
Organization.
The worldwide death toll has hit 40,777.
Follow the latest updates.
Thursday, April 2
1:10 p.m.
Moody's downgrades its outlook for Australia's
banking system to
'negative' from 'stable' on the coronavirus
pandemic, Reuters reports.
12:07 p.m.
The Japanese government will send two sets of cloth
face masks to
slightly more than 50 million addresses nationwide,
Chief Cabinet
Secretary Yoshihide Suga tells reporters.
7:00 a.m.
U.S. President Donald Trump says he is looking at a
plan to halt domestic
flights to coronavirus hot spots inside
the country, which would likely
shut down traffic at airports in
-hit New York, New Orleans and
Detroit and extend to major
across the country as infections spread.
5:00 a.m.
U.S. stocks close lower for another session, with the
Dow Jones
Industrial Average and the S&P 500 falling
more than 4%.
4:13 a.m.
Thai-owned luxury grocer and cafe Dean & DeLuca f
attempts to revive the chain.
3:16 a.m.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in India
rises by 437, the
biggest one-day increase to date, to 1,834,
the Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare says.
1:00 a.m.
A number of U.S. lawsuits seek to pin the
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