A change in how the illness is diagnosed may partly explain the jump. Here are the latest updates and maps of where the virus has spread. Political fallout: China’s ruling Communist Party fired the leaders of Hubei Province and Wuhan, its largest city, today amid widespread public anger over the handling of the epidemic. Economic fallout: One of the world’s biggest technology trade shows, Mobile World Congress in Spain, was canceled because of the outbreak. Prosecutors’ fears of presidential pressureTop Justice Department officials’ intervention to reduce a sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone, a longtime friend of President Trump, has raised fears among career prosecutors.

Source: International New York Times February 13, 2020 10:18 UTC