cases in some 24 countries and territories, and three deaths. Japan confirmed its first coronavirus death on Thursday. One person has died in Hong Kong and one in the Philippines.

The virus is killing about 2 percent of those infected, but has spread faster than other respiratory viruses that emerged this century.

A WHO-led joint mission with China will start its outbreak investigation work this weekend, focusing on how the new coronavirus is spreading and its severity, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

RELATED PHOTOS Workers conduct RNA tests for the new coronavirus in specimens inside a laboratory at a center for disease control and prevention in Taiyuan, China, on Friday. | CNSPHOTO / VIA REUTERSof the warrant to support the search of his premises.
The State presented the testimony of Detective Jim Dodson, Odessa Police Narcotics Service. Dodson testified that he and other officers, acting upon an informant's tip, set up surveillance at the rear of Appellant's mobile home at 8:00 p. m., June 13, 1979. At 9:52 p. m., the Appellant exited his trailer and went to the rear corner of his fenced back yard. He bent down and picked something up. After several minutes of looking up and down the alley, he left his enclosed yard and proceeded to a vacant strip between his rear fence line and the alley proper. Evidence at the suppression hearing clearly demonstrated that this was still on his leased property.
He again bent down, dug a