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People with protective mask walk in Tokyo, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. Most of Japan's cases were from the Diamond Princess cruise ship, where nearly one-fifth of its 3,711 passengers and crew became infected. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan govt panel experts say ship quarantine was not perfect

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

A photographer takes photos near the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship anchored at a port in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. Passengers tested negative for COVID-19 started disembarking since Wednesday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan reports 3rd cruise ship death, 57 more infected

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Cincinnati Reds center fielder Shogo Akiyama, of Japan, reaches up to catch a football as outfielders warm up during spring training baseball workouts Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, in Goodyear, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

New OF Akiyama singles, tries steal in eventful Reds debut

By JOSE M. ROMERO - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a view of part of the temporary hospital with 1100 beds converted from the Wuhan Sports Center in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 12, 2020. Without enough facilities to handle the number of cases of viral infection, Wuhan has been building prefabricated hospitals and converting a gym and other large spaces to house patients and try to isolate them from others. (Cheng Min/Xinhua via AP)

List of sports events affected by the new virus from China

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - This Feb. 12, 2020, file photo released by Xinhua News Agency shows a part of a temporary hospital with 1,100 beds converted from the Wuhan Sports Center in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. Citizens have been ordered to stay in their homes for weeks in the coronavirus outbreak's epicenter of Wuhan. (Cheng Min/Xinhua via AP, File)

List of sports events affected by the new virus from China

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, file photo, people wearing masks sit in front of a countdown clock for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. The Tokyo Olympics open in exactly five months on July 24. But the fast-spreading coronavirus from China is making Tokyo organizers very anxious. Three deaths have been reported in Japan with more than 700 cases, more than 600 from a cruise ship that docked in Japan. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Q&A: Things to know about Tokyo Olympics and spreading virus

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

In this Feb. 12, 2020, photo released by Imperial Household Agency of Japan, Japan's Emperor Naruhito poses his residence in Tokyo ahead of his 60th birthday on Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020. Naruhito offered his sympathy to those affected by the new virus that emerged in China and said he hopes to see the outbreak contained soon. Birthday celebration plans had called for him to wave from the palace balcony to tens of thousands of well-wishers, but they were canceled as a precautionary anti-infection measure. (Imperial Household Agency of Japan via AP)

Japan emperor’s 60th birthday overshadowed by virus fears

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters at his prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Feb. 21, 2020. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should be basking in the limelight this year in the run-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Instead, the virus outbreak that has spread from China to even remote parts of Japan has Abe and his ruling Liberal Democratic Party playing defense. (Yoshitaka Sugawara/Kyodo News via AP)

Outbreak, economic ills dim luster of Japan’s Olympic year

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press

An official in protective suits measure the temperature of the foreign passengers disembarked from the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship before boarding to buses at a port in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. Passengers tested negative for COVID-19 started disembarking since Wednesday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan to let off last healthy cruise travelers, isolate rest

Associated Press

Workers wearing protective gears spray disinfectant against the new coronavirus in front of a church in Daegu, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. The mayor of the South Korean city of Daegu urged its 2.5 million people on Thursday to refrain from going outside as cases of the new virus spike. (Kim Jun-beom/Yonhap via AP)

Daegu, South Korea declared coronavirus ‘special management zone’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A man snowboards down a slope overlooking Mount Yotei at a ski resort Feb. 5, 2020, in Niseko, Hokkaido, Japan. “There’s a lot less snow,” said Nguyen Nguyen, a skier visiting from Hong Kong. “This is definitely the worst I’ve ever seen it.” (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

AP PHOTOS: Olympic bidder Sapporo has erratic snowfall

By JAE C. HONG - Associated Press

In this Feb. 14, 2020, photo, a woman wearing a face mask walks on a almost empty street at the Chinatown in Incheon, South Korea. Even as cases and deaths from the new virus mount, fear is advancing like a tsunami - and not just in the areas surrounding the Chinese city of Wuhan, the center of the outbreak that has been declared a global health emergency. A restaurant owner in the Chinatown says visitors have dropped by 90%. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Stress, rumors, even violence: Virus fear goes viral

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), addresses the media during a press conference at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020 on the situation regarding to the new coronavirus. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP) **FILE**

New coronavirus concerns in S. Korea, Japan as Chinese cases ebb

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, photo, Thai public health officers operate a health checkpoint with thermo scan, targeting to pick people traveling with fever, a symptom of COVID-19 at Suvarnabhumi International airport in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai Public Health Ministry on Monday, Feb 17, 2020, informed Thais to reschedule their visits to Japan and Singapore citing the rising number of people infected by new coronavirus in those two countries. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

Coronavirus threatens to global economy as Iran reports 2 deaths

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Illustration on allies paying their share by Linas Garys/The Washington Times

Washington’s defense burden-sharing demands must consider allies’ current strategic support

By Jim Hartnett and Christopher Sharman

FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2020, file photo, commuters ride in a quiet subway train during the morning rush hour in Beijing. As many Chinese finally go back to work after their longest Lunar New Year holiday ever, the economic fallout from the outbreak of a new coronavirus that began in Wuhan may be just beginning. Companies are warning their bottom lines will take a hit, and governments are ramping up stimulus measures for economies that just weeks ago were hoping to see recoveries after months of uncertainty due to trade tensions and slowing global growth. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China virus outbreak chilling recovery for Asian economies

By ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press

In this Feb. 13, 2020, file photo, a security guard stands near the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship in Yokohama, near Tokyo. After 14 days, an extraordinary quarantine of the Diamond Princess cruise ship ends Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, with thousands of passengers and crew set to disembark over the next several days in the port of Yokohama. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Quarantine on cruise ship in Japan comes under question

By Maria Cheng and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

An unidentified passenger is surrounded by the media after she disembarked from the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Passengers tested negative for COVID-19 started disembarking Wednesday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Passengers begin leaving after ship’s virus quarantine ends in Japan

By Mari Yamaguchi and Foster Klug - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 10, 2019, file photo, a man walks in shade of a building as other people rest at a bench in Tokyo. The Japanese economy shrank at an annual pace of 6.3% in the October-December period, as growth got battered by typhoons and crimped consumer spending. The seasonally adjusted data released Monday, Feb. 17, 2020, by the Cabinet Office comes amid looming fears about the damage the regional economy is almost certain to suffer from the outbreak of a new virus that began in China late last year.(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Japanese economy sinks amid fears about virus impact

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

Buses carrying U.S. passengers who were aboard the quarantined cruise ship the Diamond Princess, seen in background, leaves Yokohama port, near Tokyo, early Monday, Feb. 17, 2020. The cruise ship was carrying nearly 3,500 passengers and crew members under quarantine. (Jun Hirata/Kyodo News via AP)

Americans off Diamond Princess cruise ship face U.S. quarantine

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times