The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given emergency approval for Roche’s new coronavirus test that could increase the speed of testing for the virus tenfold.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the U.K. is moving to the delay phase of its response to coronavirus outbreak, while London’s FTSE 100 index plummeted more than 10%.
China saw its deadliest day from the coronavirus on Wednesday, in the same week that Chinese health officials predicted that the pneumonia-like virus was nearing its peak.
China’s main stock exchange will remain closed to February 3 as the Chinese government extended a public holiday in a bid to halt the spread of the coronavirus.
Australian and the U.S. are now screening passengers that have flown in from Wuhan, as the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in China rose to six.