CORONAVIRUS: Japan reports first coronavirus death
Japan reports the first death in the country of a patient infected with the new coronavirus.
read moreCORONAVIRUS: Japan to expand entry ban on foreigners
The Japanese government decides to expand its entry ban on foreigners from China to include those who have stayed in Zhe...
read moreCORONAVIRUS: 10 people on cruise ship infected
Ten out of the approximately 3,700 people quarantined on a cruise ship off Yokohama are found to be infected with the ne...
read moreCORONAVIRUS: Japan moves up prevention ordinance
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says a government ordinance with binding power to contain the new coronavirus, including refus...
read moreCORONAVIRUS: Japan's 3rd charter flight arrives at Haneda
The Japanese government's third charter flight from Wuhan, China, arrives at Haneda Airport in Tokyo.
read moreJapanese evacuees from virus-hit Wuhan arrive in Tokyo
A Japanese government-chartered plane with 206 evacuees from Wuhan, China, arrives in Tokyo after hundreds of Japanese n...
read moreJapan confirms 1st domestic infection of new coronavirus
Japan confirms the first case of new coronavirus infection in a Japanese national who has not visited China.
read moreJapan to add new coronavirus to list of designated infectious diseases
Japan plans to add the new coronavirus to its list of designated infectious diseases, allowing the government to take co...
read moreNew coronavirus infection in Tokyo
A Chinese traveler from Wuhan is hospitalized in Tokyo due to infection with the new coronavirus that has caused an outb...
read moreJapan to step up measures against new coronavirus
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asks Cabinet ministers to strengthen countermeasures against a new coronavirus.
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