A member of the press wearing a surgical mask attends Professor Hiroshi Nishiura’s news conference about the new coronavirus at The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan on February 04, 2020, Tokyo, Japan. Professor Nishiura of Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, who is a specialist in influenza and emerging viral infectious diseases, spoke about the new coronavirus, its severity, spread and potential for mutations. The new coronavirus originated in the city of Wuhan in China, where has already reported nearly 10,000 confirmed cases with 213 deaths, and other countries in Asia, Europe and Noth America. (Photo by Rodrigo Reyes Marin)
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