China reports 5,000 new casesA man disinfects escalators at a shopping mall in Beijing on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. (Gilles Sabrié/The New York Times)BEIJING/SIHANOUKVILLE: China's coronavirus outbreak showed no sign of peaking with health authorities on Friday reporting more than 5,000 new cases, while passengers on a cruise ship blocked from five countries due to virus fears finally disembarked in Cambodia. In its latest update, China's National Health Commission said it had recorded 121 new deaths and 5,090 new coronavirus cases on the mainland on Feb. 13, taking the accumulated total infected to 63,851 people. The death was the third outside mainland China, after two others in Hong Kong and the Philippines. - Cambodia welcomes passengers -A cruise liner quarantined off a Japanese port has more than 200 people confirmed with the disease.

Source: Bangkok Post February 14, 2020 04:41 UTC