at the start of a meeting with International Olympic Committee Coordination Commission Chief John Coates.

Hundreds of infections have been reported in more than two dozen countries and territories besides China, but only two people have died from the virus outside mainland China – one in Hong Kong and another in the Philippines.

Japanese nationals who’ve been staying in hotels or other facilities since returning on four charter flights from China’s Wuhan, the epicenter of the epidemic, have begun going home.

All 197 people from a Jan. 29 flight who tested negative were either home or enroute and another 200 or so from a second flight could head home later on Thursday, public broadcaster NHK said.__|a Two twenty-something stoner roommates, one a Korean-American investment banker, Harold and the other, an Indian-American medical school candidate, Kumar, go through a life changing journey. They are on a quest to satisfy their cravings for burgers and spend the night roaming the state of New Jersey in search of White Castle hamburgers running into one screwy obstacle after another.