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The government has lengthened the week-long Lunar New Year holiday by three days to February 2 in a bid to contain the virus which has killed 81.

Officials said the man is his 50s and recently flew from Wuhan, China to Guangzhou, China and then on to Toronto on January 23.

Coronavirus Outbreak LIVE Updates: The mayor of Wuhan said he expected a thousand more confirmed cases infected with the deadly SARS-like virus, according to state broadcaster CCTV.

Between 15 and 19 January, more than 38,000 people fled violence in the rebel-held west of Aleppo province, which neighbours the main opposition bastion of Idlib, the UN humanitarian affairs office (OCHA) said.

Of the five people who have tested positive for the virus in Hong Kong so far, four arrived via a newly built high-speed train terminal which connects with the mainland.

Teams worked with their hands to remove bricks and plaster from the ruins. Elsewhere emergency workers used drills and mechanical diggers to clear the debris, while injured people were carried on stretchers to ambulances.

US President Donald Trump had initially said that no Americans were injured in the strike on the Ain al-Asad base in western Iraq earlier this month although authorities later reported that 11 troops were injured.

The facility in the central city of Wuhan is expected to be in use by February 3 to serve a rising number of patients infected by a coronavirus that has left at least 26 people dead and millions on lockdown in an effort to curb the spread.

Past presidents who opposed abortion, including Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, steered clear of personally attending the march to avoid being too closely associated with demonstrators eager to outlaw the procedure.

It said the atmospheric concentration of CO2 is expected to peak above 417 parts per million in May, with the average for the year forecast to be 414.2 ± 0.6ppm. This annual average represents a 2.74 ± 0.57 ppm rise on the 2019 average.

Many of those who died from the virus had pre-existing health issues before contracting the Wuhan disease, such as diabetes and hypertension.

Imran Khan said he had told PM Narendra Modi, in the aftermath of the Pulwama terrorist attack last February, that Islamabad will act firmly if it was given evidence of any Pakistani involvement but India instead "bombed" Pakistan.

Antonio Guterres further said there is an urgent need to move towards green economy and the subsidies being paid with taxpayers' money should not go to fossil fuels.

Jesus Wilfredo Encarnacion, 30, of New York, who also went by the name 'Jihadistsoldgier' and 'Jihadinheart', will be sentenced in April.

Senior US diplomat Alice Wells said that there was no transparency in the CPEC projects and Pakistan's debt burden was growing due to the Chinese financing.

Washington has for weeks been calling for the violence to be reined in, posing it as a condition for resuming formal negotiations on an agreement that would see US troops begin to leave Afghanistan in return for security guarantees.