As Europe and the United States struggle to contain the virus and the markets stagger, the Chinese province at the center of the outbreak reported no new infections outside its capital, Wuhan.
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The death toll rose to 14 in Washington State, the worst-hit state, the authorities said Friday.
The U.S. caseload rises past 250, most in Washington State and California.
Authorities across the United States reported more than 250 cases of coronavirus and 15 deaths as of Friday, with the West Coast bearing the brunt of the toll.
Washington State has recorded the most cases, 84, and the highest number of deaths, 14. Most of the fatal cases emerged from a Seattle-area nursing home. Officials in King County, Wash., said 15 residents of the facility, Life Care Center, had been taken to hospitals over the past 24 hours.