The Holland America cruise ship Westerdam has no reported cases of coronavirus aboard it but the fear associated with the disease has caused four countries to refuse the ship permission to dock. After refusals by the Philippines, Taiwan Japan and Thailand, passengers were scheduled to disembark in Cambodia Thursday.
Death count spikes in virus heartland as new diagnosis applied
China on Thursday reported 254 new deaths and a spike in virus cases of 15,152, after the hardest-hit province of Hubei applied a new classification system that broadens the scope of diagnoses for the outbreak, which has spread to more than 20 countries.
