New Virus Cases Climb In Hardest-Hit China, South Korea

BEIJING (AP) – As the worst-hit areas of Asia continued to struggle with a new virus, with hundreds more cases reported Thursday in South Korea and China, worries about infection and containment spread across the globe. The coronavirus has now caused more new cases outside China, the epicenter of the outbreak, than inside the country. With Brazil confirming Latin America’s first case, the virus has reached every continent but Antarctica. President Donald Trump declared that the U.S. was “very, very ready” and put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of the country’s response. The South Korean and U.S. militaries postponed their annual joint drills.