What you need to know about coronavirusFollow our updates: Chinese health officials say they confirmed more than 31,000 cases of the novel coronavirus, more than 4,800 of them considered severe. Meanwhile, quarantined on military bases, U.S. evacuees resort to Zumba, stairwell races and accounting classes. Chinese doctor Li Wenliang, who became a symbol of the Chinese government’s failings after sounding warnings about the disease in December, died Thursday after contracting the virus in Wuhan. Have you seen or experienced any discrimination, racism or xenophobia connected to the ongoing coronavirus epidemic? Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses whose effects range from causing the common cold to triggering much more serious diseases, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.

Source: Washington Post February 07, 2020 20:24 UTC