Japan's Nikkei index is down by more than 3% today, following a week of losses around the world.

Yesterday the Dow Jones in the US had its biggest daily loss ever.

"Japanese stocks are experiencing an inevitable hit from the US market rout," Seiichi Suzuki, senior market analyst at Tokai Tokyo Research Institute, told the AFP new agency.

"Since the US market was unusually strong earlier, once it took a downturn, it's a hard plunge

"Selling has been inviting more selling."

Hyundai Motors - one of the world's largest auto manufacturers - has partially suspended operations at one of its Ulsan plants after an employee tested positive for the coronavirus.

It has sent home around 4,000 workers, according to the BBC's South Korea correspondent Laura Bicker.

A cruise ship turned away from Jamaica and the Cayman Islands - after a crew member tested positive for seasonal flu - is now docked in Mexico.

Passengers will be allowed to disembark as long as "health standards" are met, the country's president has said.

No-one has tested positive for the coronavirus.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the Meraviglia, which had been anchored off the Mexican Caribbean island of Cozumel since Wednesday, "is being allowed to dock".

"We cannot act inhumanely. Imagine the desperation," he said, referring to the 6,000 people aboard.

A small number of locals wearing masks protested at the Cozumel dock on Wednesday. "We don't want the virus," said one.

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Like others across Asia, Indian markets have also fallen this morning.

The Nifty and the Sensex are both down by around 2.5%.

Both have shed about 6% so far this week - and are on track for their worst week since February 2016.

Thailand has confirmed another case of Covid-19 - a Thai tour guide who recently returned from South Korea.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has confirmed that her country has its first confirmed case of Covid-19.

The patient is a permanent resident of New Zealand who had recently been in Iran.

Facebook has cancelled the in-person portion of F8, its developer conference, over fears of the coronavirus outbreak. , external

The conference was scheduled to take place in San Jose, California, in May.

The company said the conference was an "incredibly important event" and it had been a "tough call to make".

It said that it would instead replace the conference with "locally hosted events and live-streamed content".

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China has removed a long-running popular epidemic-themed phone game from app stores in the country.

The game's developer Ndemic Creations said Plague Inc. had been removed because it included content "that is illegal in China".

Game analyst Daniel Ahmad said there were several reasons why the game could have been removed...

South Korea's largest cinema chain CJ CGV said it will temporarily shut down cinemas in the Daegu area.

Nine outlets in the area will be temporarily closed, said the cinema chain, according to a Korea Herald report.

Daegu has become the city worst-hit by the virus in South Korea.

Lithuania has reported its first confirmed case of the virus on Friday, as the outbreak continues to spread across Europe.

The patient is a woman who returned from a visit to Italy's northern city of Verona, said a Reuters report. The woman is reportedly showing only slight symptoms of the virus and has been isolated in hospital.

The graph shows market performance in the past 30 days.

The graph shows market performance in the past 30 days.

The graph shows market performance in the past 30 days.

The graph shows market performance in the past 30 days.

Travelers from Iran will not be able to enter New Zealand, a temporary restriction imposed by authorities on Friday.

The restrictions will apply until 3 March but will be reviewed every 48 hours.

Those in New Zealand who have been in Iran in the last 14 days will also need to self-isolate.

New Zealand has already banned visitors from mainland China. The country's health ministry said there would be no exemptions made for Chinese students.

Health Minister David Clark also said there would also be an increased presence of health officials that would meet direct international flights landing in New Zealand from Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand.

And other questions you have about the virus, answered here.

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Japan will on Monday close all schools across the country, a move that will affect up to 13 million students.

The closure will continue until the school year ends in late March.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the first weeks of March would be an "extremely critical period" for preventing virus transmission.

But not everyone is happy with the move.

"My honest feeling - all schools on break? It's important to protect children, but what happens if they have working parents?" one parent wrote on social media.

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"Patients were pouring into hospitals like a tide - we didn't have enough beds available for everyone," one doctor, who is on the frontline in Wuhan, tells the BBC's John Sudworth.

A pet dog owned by a coronavirus patient in Hong Kong has been put under quarantine after it was found to have tested "weak positive" for the virus.

Authorities say they will conduct further tests to confirm if the dog has been infected, or if the nasal and oral samples taken from the dog were the result of environment contamination.

The dog does not have any virus symptoms.

Read more about whether your pets can catch the virus here.