Coronavirus latest in photos: What is happening right now across the world

A wrap of all the facts, figures and news from around the world on Wednesday

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Dona Cherian, Assistant Online Editor
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In a latest news update, a baby in China's epidemic-hit Wuhan city has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus just 30 hours after being born, Chinese state media reported Wednesday.
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A man and a child wear protective masks in Manila, Philippines, Wednesday Feb. 5, 2020. The Philippines has reported 3 cases, including one death, from the new virus and precautionary measures remain tight around the country.
AP
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Military personnel go through disinfecting procedures prior to handle Italian citizens repatriated from the coronavirus hot-zone of Wuhan, at the Mario De Bernardi military airport in Pratica di Mare, south of Rome, on February 3, 2020 prior to be placed in quarantine at the nearby Cecchignola center. - Italy OUT / AFP / ANSA / -
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Passengers wearing face masks alight from a ferry in Hong Kong on February 5, 2020, as a preventative measure following a virus outbreak which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan. More Chinese cities hunkered down by fencing off streets and telling millions of people to stay home as the death toll from the new coronavirus soared to nearly 500 on February 5. Hong Kong now has 18 confirmed infections, the majority people who were infected in mainland China
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A man wearing a respirator mask waits for his ferry in Hong Kong on February 5, 2020, as a preventative measure following a virus outbreak which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan. More Chinese cities hunkered down by fencing off streets and telling millions of people to stay home as the death toll from the new coronavirus soared to nearly 500 on February 5. Hong Kong now has 18 confirmed infections, the majority people who were infected in mainland China. / AFP / Philip FONG
AFP
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This handout from Vietnam Airlines taken on February 4, 2020 and released on February 5, 2020 shows a staff member wearing a protective suit while disinfecting a Vietnam Airlines plane at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi. Health officials in Vietnam on February 5 said all foreign passport holders -- including from China, Hong Kong and Macau -- that have been to mainland China in the past 14 days will not be permitted to enter Vietnam, in a bid to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, which is believed to have originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. AFP / VIETNAM AIRLINES / Handout
AFP
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This handout from Vietnam Airlines taken on February 4, 2020 and released on February 5, 2020 shows a staff member wearing a protective suit while disinfecting a Vietnam Airlines plane at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi. Health officials in Vietnam on February 5 said all foreign passport holders -- including from China, Hong Kong and Macau -- that have been to mainland China in the past 14 days will not be permitted to enter Vietnam, in a bid to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, which is believed to have originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. AFP / VIETNAM AIRLINES / Handout
AFP
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This handout from Vietnam Airlines taken on February 4, 2020 and released on February 5, 2020 shows a staff member wearing a protective suit while disinfecting a Vietnam Airlines plane at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi. Health officials in Vietnam on February 5 said all foreign passport holders -- including from China, Hong Kong and Macau -- that have been to mainland China in the past 14 days will not be permitted to enter Vietnam, in a bid to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, which is believed to have originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. AFP / VIETNAM AIRLINES / Handout
AFP
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A woman wearing a protective facemask uses her mobile phone as she walks in Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok on February 5, 2020. Thailand so far has detected 25 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus believed to have originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, which is under lockdown. / AFP / Romeo GACAD
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A woman wears a protective facemask as she walks in Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok on February 5, 2020. Thailand so far has detected 25 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus believed to have originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, which is under lockdown. / AFP / Romeo GACAD
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A girl wears a face mask as she walks across a frozen canal during a snowfall in Beijing, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. The little-understood new coronavirus has killed nearly 500 people in mainland China, but it has also spread panic and discrimination around the world as the number of cases grow. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil)
Agencies
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New Delhi: In this handout photo provided by Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Indian nationals who were airlifted from coronavirus-hit Wuhan city of China's Hubei, inside a quarantine facility set by up ITBP, at Chhawla area of New Delhi, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. As many as 647 Indians have been evacuated through two special Air India flights.
PTI
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Scientific staff members works in a secure laboratory, researching the coronavirus, at the Pasteur Institute in Dakar on February 3, 2020. The Pasteur Institute in Dakar, designated by the African Union as one of the two reference centres in Africa for the detection of the new coronavirus that appeared in China, is hosting experts from 15 countries on the continent this weekend to prepare them to deal with the disease. / AFP / Seyllou
Agencies
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Medical staff strike over coronavirus concerns outside government headquarters in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. In Hong Kong, hospitals workers are striking to demand the border with mainland China be shut completely to ward off the virus, but four new cases without known travel to the mainland indicate the illness is spreading locally in the territory. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
Agencies
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Medical staff members preparing equipment to meet passengers of a military plane, which evacuated citizens of Russia and ex-Soviet countries from China's Wuhan province, the epicentre of an outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic, are seen through a bus window at the Roshchino International Airport outside Tyumen, Russia February 5, 2020. Yuri Shestak/Vsluh.ru/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE MANDATORY CREDIT
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Sarah Chong, middle, who is visiting from Shanghai, and her family wear masks in precaution of the Wuhan coronavirus while shopping at San Gabriel Square on January 29, 2020, in San Gabriel, Calif. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
Agencies
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Passengers with protective masks wait at the departure area, following confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country, at Ninoy Aquino International Airport, in Manila, Philippines February 5, 2020. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
Agencies
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Passengers talk on a video call while wearing protective masks following confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country, at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, in Manila, in Manila, Philippines, February 5, 2020. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
Agencies
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A man with a face mask rides the subway in the Queens borough of New York City, U.S. February 2, 2020. Picture taken February 2, 2020. REUTERS/Nick Zieminski
Agencies
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An Afghan health worker takes the temperature of a passenger as a preventive measures for Coronavirus, during a screening process of travelers who arrived from China, at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. Screening has begun in all airports and land ports in Afghanistan, especially of those who arrive from China. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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A passenger wearing a mask walk outside the Shanghai railway station in Shanghai, China, as the country is hit by an outbreak of a new coronavirus, February 4, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo
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