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Hawaii Gov. David Ige, center, state Health Director Bruce Anderson, left, and state Epidemiologist Sarah Park, right, discuss a tourist who was confirmed with the coronavirus after returning home to Japan at a news conference in Honolulu on Friday, Feb. 14, 2020. Hawaii officials are trying to learn more about who was in close contact with the man and other details about his time in the islands. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)

Japanese man who visited Hawaii confirmed with coronavirus

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER - Associated Press

In this Feb. 13, 2020, photo, a boy walks around an information center in Yokohama's Chinatown, near Tokyo. A top Olympic official made clear Friday the 2020 Games in Tokyo will not be cancelled despite the virus that has spread from China. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

No ‘Plan B’ for Olympics; questions over Chinese presence

By STEPHEN WADE and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Tourists quarantined on the Diamond Princess cruise ship get some fresh air on the top deck of the ship Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Life on board the luxury cruise ship, which has dozens of cases of a new virus, can include fear, excitement and soul-crushing boredom, according to interviews by The Associated Press with passengers and a stream of tweets and YouTube videos. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Diamond Princess, coronavirus cruise ship, passengers detail ordeal

By Foster Klug - Associated Press

Scandal-hit Nissan sinks into losses as sales plummet

By YURI KAGEYAMA - Associated Press

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, second left, speaks at a meeting against a new coronavirus, at his official residence in Tokyo Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. Abe on Thursday announced a series of measures totaling 15.3 billion yen to deal with the spread of coronavirus. (Yoshitaka Sugawara/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan reports first death from new virus

Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2020, file photo, a reporter walks near the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Life on board the luxury cruise ship, which has dozens of cases of a new virus, can include fear, excitement and soul-crushing boredom, according to interviews by The Associated Press with passengers and a stream of tweets and YouTube videos. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Fear, boredom, adventure fill each day on quarantined ship

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

In this Feb. 12, 2020, photo, Abraham Majok, center and other compatriot athletes of the South Sudan team participate in Japanese language lessons as their preparation for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, north of Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

From South Sudan to Japan — and on to the Tokyo Olympics

By KOJI UEDA - Associated Press

A passenger, right, is hugged by Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen after she disembarked from the MS Westerdam, owned by Holland America Line, at the port of Sihanoukville, Cambodia, Friday, Feb. 14, 2020. Passengers finally disembarked on Friday from the cruise ship allowed to dock in Cambodia following two weeks of being stranded at sea after being refused entry by four Asian governments because of virus fears. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cruise stranded by virus fears ends with roses in Cambodia

By SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

Residents wait to enter a checkpoint with a sign which reads "Returnees to Beijing registration point" in Beijing, China Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. China is struggling to restart its economy after the annual Lunar New Year holiday was extended to try to keep people home and contain novel coronavirus. Traffic remained light in Beijing, and many people were still working at home. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China reports huge spike in Coronavirus cases, deaths after changing Hubei criteria

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Passengers stand on the deck of the Diamond Princess cruise ship anchored at Yokohama Port in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. Japan’s health ministry said Wednesday that 39 new cases of a virus have been confirmed on the cruise ship quarantined at the Japanese port. (Yuta Omori/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan reports 1st death from virus, 44 more cases on ship

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

The MS Westerdam, owned by Holland America Line, sails off a port of Sihanoukville, Cambodia, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020. Holland America Line said the ship has been turned away by the Philippines, Taiwan, Japan and Thailand, though its operator said no cases of the disease have been confirmed among the more than 2,200 passengers and crew. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cruise ship turned away in other ports docks in Cambodia

By SOPHENG CHEANG AND GRANT PECK - Associated Press

Media gather outside the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020. Japan's Health Minister Katsunobu Kato said the government was considering testing everyone remaining on board and crew on the Diamond Princess, which would require them to remain aboard until results were available. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Japan confirms 39 new virus cases, 174 total on cruise ship

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, photo, medical staff prepare beds at a temporary hospital which transformed from an exhibition center for accepting patients who diagnosed with the coronaviruses in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Ten more people were sickened with a new virus aboard one of two quarantined cruise ships with some 5,400 passengers and crew aboard, health officials in Japan said Thursday, as China reported 73 more deaths and announced that the first group of patients were expected to start taking a new antiviral drug. (Chinatopix via AP)

China’s Communist Party faces recriminations over virus

By KEN MORITSUGU and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

A security guard wears a face mask as he walks along a pedestrian shopping street during a snowfall in Beijing, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. Deaths from a new virus rose to 490 in mainland China on Wednesday while new cases on a Japanese cruise ship, in Hong Kong and in other places showed the increasing spread of the outbreak and renewed attention toward containing it. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Disconnect? Stocks rise despite fears over virus from China

By STAN CHOE and CARLA K. JOHNSON and MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, medical workers in protective suits help transfer the first group of patients into the newly-completed Huoshenshan temporary field hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. China said Tuesday the number of infections from a new virus surpassed 20,000 as medical workers and patients arrived at a new hospital and President Xi Jinping said &quot;we have launched a people's war of prevention of the epidemic.&quot; (Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua via AP)

The Latest: France warns against all travel to China

Associated Press

People wave flags to a P3C aircraft during its departure ceremony, in JMSDF Naha base, Naha, southern Japan, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020. Two P3C aircrafts were dispatched to the Middle East, to make it the first of Japanese troop deployment to protect Middle East waterways and to ensure Japanese oil tankers’ safety. (Takuto Kaneko/Kyodo News via AP)

Japanese warship heads to Middle East to protect tankers

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, photo, South Korean protesters stage a rally calling for a ban on Chinese people entering South Korea near the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea. A scary new virus from China has spread around the world. So has rising anti-Chinese sentiment, calls for a full travel ban on Chinese visitors and indignities for Chinese and other Asians. The sign reads: &quot;No Entry.&quot; (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Coronavirus fears trigger anti-China sentiment worldwide

By Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, photo, South Korean protesters stage a rally calling for a ban on Chinese people entering South Korea near the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea. A scary new virus from China has spread around the world. So has rising anti-Chinese sentiment, calls for a full travel ban on Chinese visitors and indignities for Chinese and other Asians. The signs read: &quot;No Entry.&quot; (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Fears of new virus trigger anti-China sentiment worldwide

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, file photo, a woman with a young boy takes a selfie with the Olympic rings, in Tokyo's Odaiba district. Tokyo Olympic organizers are trying to shoot down rumors that this summer's games might be cancelled or postponed because of the spread of a new virus. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Tokyo Olympic organizers try to dampen cancellation rumors

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

In this Friday, Jan. 31, 2020, photo, people line up outside a fever clinic at Wuhan Union Hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. The United States on Friday declared a public health emergency and took drastic steps to significantly restrict entry into the country because of a new virus that hit China and has spread to other nations. (Chinatopix via AP)

China death toll reaches 259; WHO warns countries to prepare

By Joe McDonald and Sam McNeil - Associated Press