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Follow our live updates: A healthy young man has died of coronavirus in China. Until now, the vast majority of victims have been older than 60 with preexisting health conditions.

Mapping the spread of the new coronavirus: The United States, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, Nepal, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, Macao and South Korea have all confirmed cases of the infection.

In Wuhan, the Chinese city of 11 million people where the coronavirus outbreak began last month, train stations, ferries, buses and the airport all have shut down. Authorities are enforcing a lockdown across large parts of the province of Hubei, population 59 million.

U.S. Health officials are screening travelers from Wuhan arriving at the international airports in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York’s John F. Kennedy, Chicago’s O’Hare and Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson international airport.

The World Health Organization declined to declare a global health emergency Thursday, saying it’s too early.

What is coronavirus and how does it spread? Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses whose effects range from causing the common cold to triggering much more serious diseases, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which can affect humans and animals, according to the World Health Organization. Here’s what we know so far about the virus.