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Foreign Diplomats in South Korea Evacuated to Russia; Quarantined Cruise Ship in Egypt Now Has 45 Cases; Mexican Mother Demands Justice for Murdered Daughter. Aired 12-1a ET

Aired March 09, 2020 - 00:00   ET

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NATALIE ALLEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Live from CNN Center in Atlanta, hello, everyone. Thanks for joining us. I'm Natalie Allen.

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MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: And I'm Michael Holmes.

Coming up here on CNN NEWSROOM, from lockdowns in Italy to cutting out potential risks in the U.S., countries around the world ramping up containment measures for the coronavirus.

ALLEN: Also ahead here this hour, the cruise ship stuck in limbo off California's coast could be docking soon, but passengers on board won't be going home just yet.

HOLMES: And South Korea's military is maintaining its preparedness after the North launches projectiles off the coast of the Korean Peninsula.

And we start with the novel coronavirus at sea and on land. Countries are struggling to stop the outbreak. Here's some of the latest for you. The virus has affected more than 108,000 people worldwide, killed at least 3,800, nearly a quarter of all cases, and now outside the virus epicenter in mainland China.

ALLEN: The number of U.S. cases has topped 550, and that number could rise as a cruise ship waits to dock in California as we just mentioned. The Grand Princess has at least 21 people with the virus on board.

Egypt also facing a cruise ship emergency. It says a Nile cruise is quarantine after Italy's 45 people tested positive for the virus.

HOLMES: Cases also keep surging in Europe. Spain's number of infected has spiked to nearly 650, and France is banning large gatherings as it reports more than 1,100 cases.

ALLEN: But Europe worst-hit country remains Italy, with more than 7,300 cases and at least 366 deaths. It is putting around a quarter of its population on lockdown to try and contain the virus.

Well, let's look at the financial situation. The markets are once again taking a beating in response to the outbreak. Dow futures plunging more than 1,000 points in early trading funding. The S&P fell 500 as -- excuse me S&P 500 fell as much as 5 percent, triggering an exchange limit.

An historic collapse in oil prices is another factor. Saudi Arabia launched a price war with Russia after Russia refused to go along with an OPEC push to cut production.

Journalist Kaori Enjoji is in Tokyo with that news and also a look at the Asia markets. Kaori, hello.

KAORI ENJOJI, JOURNALIST: Hi, Natalie.

This is sheer panic in the financial markets today here on Monday in Asia. And as you pointed out, it's really oil that triggered the brutal sell-off that we're seeing in the equity markets now.

Oil dropped within seconds of Asia trading, dropping below $30 a barrel. And this is, of course, because Saudi Arabia has decided that it's going to raise production and trigger an all-out price war. And the collapse of those -- excuse me, OPEC negotiations continuing to wreak havoc on oil prices.

And then you had Dow futures opening down by more than 1,000 points, continuing to languish and boding very well -- ill, excuse me, for the reopen of Wall Street later on today.

And you have circuit breakers triggered on the S&P, as well. It almost seemed like a perfect storm was brewing for the Tokyo equity markets to start, but in addition to that, you had a yen surge this morning. This is a big drop in the yen of almost four yen in the span of hours. This is the biggest drop in three years and four months. And currently, the dahlien (ph) is training at 102.52, and there are people in the markets targeting talking about the 100-yen threshold already.

As a result, we saw equity markets in Tokyo nosedive from the start of trading, still pretty close to those lows we hit earlier on in the session. The Nikkei 225 is down over 5 points; 1,100 points right now at 19,627. And that loss continued and spilled over into the other Asian markets, as well.

So by the time Shanghai and Hong Kong started to trade, we were seeing a sea of red across the Asian region in the equity markets.

On top of that, you're getting data suggesting that some of the economies in the region, particularly Japan, were faring even worse ahead of the coronavirus, with GDP numbers revised downwards, showing the Japanese economy down more than 7 percent, 7.1 percent, on an annualized basis on the final -- in the final three months of 2019.

So you're seeing a fairly wobbly and shaky market sentiment right now; and people are bracing for another weak open when Wall Street reopens later on today.

[00:05:10] Government officials wrangling with the idea of do they -- do they keep people in lockdown? Do businesses continue to keep their workers at home and risk the economy from slowing down even further?

And I think that's a quandary that very few governments have an answer to. And that's really triggering the panic, continued panic we're seeing in the capital markets.

You have little bit to look -- things -- you have concrete data that are coming out this week. I think numbers are starting to trickle out about how specifically the coronavirus impact is being felt among corporations like Cathay, which will be reporting their numbers later on this week.

And of course, you have other data that will point to further slow -- possible further slowdown in business activity in the first two months of this year.

Natalie, back to you.

ALLEN: That's beyond stock market jitters, isn't it? The individual investors probably wondering where do I go now?

Thank you so much, Kaori Enjoji in Tokyo for us.

HOLMES: It is looking like a rough start to the markets this week.

ALLEN: Absolutely.

HOLMES: A whole lot of people talking about it on Twitter.

Meanwhile, nearly 16 million people facing lockdown in Italy as the virus continues to spread. We're talking about all of the Lombardi area and 14 provinces in the northern part of the country.

ALLEN: The sweeping restrictions cover travel and many public gatherings. CNN's Delia Gallagher has more now on how Italians are reacting. She's in Rome.

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DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It was a rude awakening for Italians on Sunday morning. A government decree signed overnight has thrown their lives into confusion.

"Do you know where we can go? How we can go? What we're supposed to do?" says Vima (ph), a regular at one of Rome's popular cafes. He says many people aren't sure what to do since the government has temporarily suspended sporting events, cinema, bingo, even weddings and funerals.

Lorenzo Vani (ph), the owner of the cafe, says he spent the morning trying to understand what the rules are.

"The thing that perplexes me," he says, "is serving at tables. If the waiter has to stay when meter away, how can he bring the food to the table?"

Vani (ph) is also worried about paying the bills. He says there's been a steep drop in customers, and he has 100 employees to take care of.

"You have to pay the bills. Lights, water, gas and personnel. If I don't make money, I close."

Few people in Rome, unlike the north of Italy, still have freedom of movement, but schools, museums and historical sites like the Coliseum are closed.

(on camera): These new restrictions are in place at least for the next three and a half weeks until April 3. What remains to be seen is how well Italians will be able to adapt to them.

The civil protection authority has made an appeal, asking Italians to change their daily habits in order to help stop the spread of the virus.

(voice-over): One Sunday habit Italians coming to St. Peter's Square to see the pope at his window. But in a break of tradition, the pope spoke on this Sunday from a video screen. The Vatican says they made that choice to avoid too many people gathering in the square.

Francis admitted it was strange to see a pope caged in like this.

POPE FRANCIS, LEADER OF CATHOLIC CHURCH: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

GALLAGHER: The pope did manage a wave from the window, saying he wanted to see people in real time. But for people in Italy today, the real times are tough. With new measures in place, there may be hope in the not-too-distant future.

Delia Gallagher, CNN, Rome.

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HOLMES: Well, the U.S. surgeon general says he thinks the corona virus outbreak is being contained in certain parts of the country, and the government's response is, quote, "shifting into a mitigation phase."

ALLEN: Our senior medical correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen, has more about that comment.

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ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: A change in messaging today from top U.S. health officials about how best to address the growing coronavirus outbreak.

DR. JEROME ADAMS, U.S. SURGEON GENERAL: Initially we had a posture of containment so that we could get people time to prepare for where we are right now. Now we're shifting into a mitigation phase, which means that we're helping communities understand, you're going to see more cases. Unfortunately, you're going to see more deaths, but that doesn't mean that we should panic. COHEN: What the official said was essentially going from containment

to mitigation. Those are two terms that we'll be hearing more often, and here's what they mean.

Containment means literally trying to contain the virus. So, for example, taking each case, seeing who those people might have had contact with while infected; quarantining those people, watching out for symptoms and doing that with every single case. Today for the first time, officials saying there might be a limit to how useful that is or to how much that can be done.

And so, in addition, other measures should be taken. And that's where the medication part comes in. Mitigation would be things like canceling large gatherings. We've already seen that, for example, with the cancellation of South by Southwest, the big event in Texas in the United States.

Also, other kinds of measures like asking people to work from home. So a general acknowledgment today from these officials that, as this outbreak grows, different approaches will be needed.

Back to you.

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HOLMES: Elizabeth Cohen now, thanks.

Now, a cruise ship that had been prevented from docking in San Francisco is now going to be heading for port in Oakland, California. There's 21 people on board, at least, who have the coronavirus. This is on the Grand Princess. That number of course can rise once more passengers are tested.

ALLEN: The ship, of course, has been in limbo since Wednesday, as you can see right there. That's when officials learned California man who traveled on the ship last month later died of the virus.

Lucy Kafanov reports a plan is in place to begin getting passengers off the ship Monday.

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LUCY KAFANOV, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, the details of the plan are still being worked out by the authorities involved, but I can tell you sort of the rough sequences as we understand it from the governor of California.

We know that medical staff boarded the ship on Sunday to begin the process of interviewing the passengers getting their medical history, getting everything ready for that disembarkation process on Monday.

We know that the boat will come into the port of Oakland, this location chosen in part due to its proximity to the Travis Air Force Base where some of the people will be quarantined, at least the California residents. It's also close to the Oakland International Airport. That might be an opportunity to get some of those international passengers out of the country, but on chartered flights. The governor of California saying they're making every step possible to prevent the population of the ship from mixing with the local population, with the local community here, to keep that disease from spreading.

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GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM (D-CA): We are not prepared to tell you exactly when, and for those passengers that may be watching this, we are not able to tell you exactly when the cruise ship will come into the port as we are still working out the enormity of the complexity of making sure we prepare the site, and moreover, prepare for a quick turnaround and quick boarding of individuals to respective locations which I will talk about in a moment. We want to make sure that all of that is locked in before the ship comes to port, which I think would just create more anxiety for the passengers and moreover, for the general public.

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KAFANOV: We know that the thousand or so California residents will be split between either Travis Air Force Base up north or the March Air Base near San Diego.

The rest of the U.S. citizens will be flown to either Texas or Georgia, quarantined at the two military bases there.

The big question: what to do with the hundreds of foreign citizens on board? The passengers, the cruise attendees. We know that the State Department is working out those details as we speak. They're trying to get the foreigners evacuated on private chartered flights. Again, they will not be mixing with the general population at the airport.

And then the crew members, about 1,100 of them, they will remain on the ship. They will spend 14 days in quarantine on the Grand Princess. That ship will then pull away from the port of Oakland, go back out to sea, and that is where those staff members will ride out the end of the quarantine. Lucy Kafanov, CNN, Oakland.

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HOLMES: And joining me now is Stephen Morse. He's a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University.

Great to have you, Professor.

STEPHEN MORSE, PROFESSOR OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: Thank you.

HOLMES: Let us start with this. We've seen what Italy is doing, basically quarantining an entire region. How difficult is that, and more generally, how successful is quarantining on any kind of large scale. Regionally, or city, or even a cruise ship? MOSS: It's actually a herculean task. And we've never really done it

before, so this is really unprecedented.

I think that theoretically, it is possible to stop an infection like a pandemic influenza, even a seasonal influenza, or a coronavirus infection, theoretically, if you get it at the source and stop it early enough. And China, unfortunately, after some initial delays, it had gotten too far away to be able to do that.

HOLMES: And you mentioned the -- you mentioned this, and it's important. The testing in the U.S., you know, numbers comparatively low versus population size. But, you know, woeful levels of testing so far.

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Does that hide the reality of what is probably out there?

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think so, because most of the people as far as we know, and from the results in China, most of the people were infected, actually don't show very serious idea signs of illness. In some cases, they may not even show any signs, at all. So they're really are not very sick.

And in most cases, they're people who are people who come to medical attention, because they are sick enough to go to the hospital. In most cases, they are people who are older, may have some underlying medical condition. But in the meantime, all those other healthy younger people are still able to transmit the infection.

VAUSE: Right.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And we don't know about that until we test them.

HOLMES: I'm wondering if there's a risk at the moment, and we've sort of seen some evidence of it. A risk that political considerations outweigh or could outweigh best practices in terms of the decision- making on the political level.

STEPHEN MORSE, EPIDEMIOLOGIST: Well, I think that there's always that possibility. Usually, in these situations, we hope that the political leaders are getting their cues from the scientists.

And of course, it's the political leaders who have the credibility and are able to reassure people, based on the best scientific advice, and hopefully at some point, we will -- we will find a happy middle ground on that one. But we don't know at this point.

We've never really had any experience with this type of coronavirus that spreads from person to person, but is closely related to SARS. And that was something we hadn't expected.

So naturally, we're being very vigilant and respectful and watchful. We know we've seen so far, but we don't know what to expect in the future.

MORSE: So we're obviously trying to be very careful to anticipate all possibilities.

HOLMES: When you look at Italy, there -- it's a country with a good health system, an excellent one. There are severe pressures on infrastructure.

In the U.S., do you see that happening? And also, this important factor that in the U.S. with its health care system, there are a lot -- millions and millions of people who are uninsured or underinsured who aren't going to want to go to the hospital, because it could bankrupt them. I mean, how do you see the system being overwhelmed potentially?

MORSE: Well, I think it is quite possible, because even during a very heavy seasonal flu, we find that it puts a tremendous burden on our healthcare system. And during an influenza pandemic like 2009 or some of the earlier ones which were even rough -- 1957, for example -- it really stretches the health care system almost to its limits.

So I think that it is quite a challenge, even under the circumstances we've expected in the past. And I think that right now, we have resource limitations, a lot of the equipment, and some other things actually come from China. And I think there is a need for really planning now and making sure we can identify the resources.

And I agree with you about I think the point about the uninsured, and underinsured, and homeless people, for example, that's a serious problem. Because we don't want people going to the emergency room if they're not feeling well, because if they have this infection, they might pass on to others who don't have it yet. If they don't have this infection, they may catch it themselves while being in contact with others who have it.

So we'd prefer, obviously, that only the people who really need medical attention and are sick enough, you know, immediately go into the hospital. And they should be taken there by ambulance or some other secure conveyance.

But many people who are not insured are used to using the emergency room, essentially, as their primary care facility. And unfortunately, it's going to be very hard to accommodate people in an emergency room setting.

HOLMES: Right. And then, of course, there are a lot of people in the U.S. who do not have sick pay and so are likely to go to work when they are sick, because they can't afford not to.

Professor Stephen Morse, got to leave it there. I appreciate your time and your expertise. Thank you.

MORSE: Thank you.

HOLMES: Well, we are taking a short break. When we come back, North Korea launches projectiles for a second time in a week. ALLEN: We'll go live to Seoul, South Korea, for the latest on what

officials are saying there.

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PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Thank you for staying with CNN. I'm meteorologist Pedram Javaheri. We watch the weather pattern across the Americas, with sunny skies, mild temperatures on the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S., back towards the Southwest, where they've enjoyed that sort of conditions.

We are seeing rain beginning to push into the forecast across the northwest, a much deserved mostly sunny pattern taking shape.

And here's the perspective. The weather will be beginning to push in across the Midwest, enough cold air back behind it first spots to produce some wintry weather, and moving from Tuesday into Wednesday and beyond.

Much of the latter half of the week brings additional showers in areas that really don't need wet weather less than 25 millimeters is what we expect. Atlanta should stay dry on Monday, highs upper teens. Chicago comes on the 13 degrees. Winnipeg often known, as Winter Peg as temperatures to support it, minus 9 as we approach the spring season within weeks here.

Looking to New York City, speaking of spring, break out the shorts, break out the T-shirts. Temps pushing up to 20 degrees. That is just sigh of 70 Fahrenheit with sunny skies. It does cool off, but again, you see that hint of spring push back into the forecast quickly.

Long-term outlook, though, it brings us back down to reality into the single digits.

Mexico City, thanks for tuning in. Upper twenties there, on into San Juan we go, where showers are expected. Some winds in the forecast, as well. Not too bad, though. Highs around 25 degrees.

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ALLEN: Welcome back to NEWSROOM. North Korea appears to once again be ramping up weapons tests. Both the U.S. and South Korean officials confirmed projectiles were fired into the waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.

HOLMES: Yes, the U.S. says they were launched from the North Korean city of Won San, and that the tests were not unexpected.

ALLEN: CNN's Ivan Watson joins us now from Seoul, South Korea, with more on this story. Interesting, not unexpected. What are you learning about this, Ivan?

IVAN WATSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, there's slightly different assessments, Natalie, between the South Korean military and U.S. officials who have spoken to CNN. It sounds like there are at least three projectiles were fired into the sea east of the Korean Peninsula.

The South Korean military saying that they flew a distance of about 200 kilometers and at an altitude of about 50 kilometers.

The South Korean military has said that it expresses regret about this. It says it's basically in the violation of the spirit of a military agreement between North and South back in September of last year that's aimed at reducing tensions.

The Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has just issued a statement saying this is a threat to peace and security.

These latest, which bear all the hallmarks of a possible missile launch, come a week after North Korea fired other projectiles, which the U.S. military said later were short-range ballistic missiles fired exactly a week ago.

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Five European countries condemned that in a statement to the United Nations Security Council, calling this a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions. And North Korea really bristled at that, saying that this is a self-defense measure.

The provocative move by North Korea come at a time when South Korea is grappling with a coronavirus epidemic which has spread into both the South Korean military, which has thousands of its personnel in self- isolation and has confirmed dozens of infections in its ranks across all four branches of the military, and into the U.S. military, which has prompted the alliance to postpone joint military exercises indefinitely.

And there's another part of this that is interesting, is that while North Korea has not yet confirmed any coronavirus infections within its own territory yet, it is apparently going to be relying on medical assistance from groups like the International Federation of the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders, who have secured waivers on sanctions from the U.N. so that they can send emergency medical supplies to North Korea.

We see developed, wealthy countries that are having shortages of supplies in the middle of this public health crisis. It's pretty clear that, if the epidemic breaks out in North Korea, it will rely on help from the outside world for dealing with a possible epidemic even at a time when it is apparently violating United Nations Security Council resolutions by firing off missiles that it's not supposed to shoot -- Natalie and Michael.

ALLEN: Very good point, Ivan. Doesn't make any sense, does it?

All right. Thank you. Ivan Watson for us in Seoul, South Korea.

HOLMES: Well, emergency workers are still looking for 23 people trapped in the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Southeastern China.

ALLEN: It was being used as a quarantine center, though all who are being housed there tested negative for the virus. At least 10 people were killed in the collapse. CNN's David Culver has more from Shanghai for us.

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DAVID CULVER, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: When you look at the images coming out of Fujian province in southeastern China, they are absolutely devastating.

In all, more than a 1,000 first responders, firefighters, and medics, were on the scene late Saturday evening into Sunday, trying to rescue as many people as possible.

These are individuals who placed into this government quarantine that was at a private facility but designated by the government so as to house people who were potentially exposed to the coronavirus or who traveled from areas that were deemed affected areas and, thereby, wanted to be monitored by the government and determined whether or not they did, in fact, have the virus.

But the vast majority, they were testing negative. And so they were there just as a precaution. In fact, all of them tested negative.

This is what's so disturbing when you look at these images and knowing just how many people were impacted by this.

We do know that this happened late Saturday evening around 7:15. And shortly before it happened, workers who were doing some renovation on the first floor of what is a seven-story structure, phoned the owner, according to state media, to say that one of the structural pillars was showing some instability. And then shortly thereafter, the collapse.

Now, the structure was built in 2013, and we know that in 2018 it was converted into this hotel, and then the renovation started in January of this year.

And now to look at what is the aftermath of a devastating situation, it's also not only a rescue operation, but a criminal investigation of some sort. We know that the owner is being questioned and detained by investigators as they're trying to figure out what exactly led up to what is ultimately seen here in China as a very tragic situation in the midst of this outbreak.

David Culver, CNN, Shanghai.

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HOLMES: All right. We're going to take a short break here on the program. Plenty more to come.

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NATALIE ALLEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. We appreciate it. I'm Natalie Allen.

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MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Michael Holmes. Headlines for you this hour. The novel coronaviruses has affected more than 108,000 people worldwide and killed at least 3,800. Nearly a quarter of all cases are now at outside mainline China. South Korea and Iran still struggling with major outbreaks.

ALLEN: Italy also has more than 7,000 cases. It is putting nearly 16 million people on lockdown as it struggles to contain the outbreak. That's roughly a quarter of the population. All of Lombardi and 14 provinces in the north are affected.

The Grand Princess cruise ship will dock briefly in Oakland, California, on Monday. There are at least 21 people with coronavirus on board. Passengers needing medical care will be taken off first. The remaining U.S.-based passengers will be sent to quarantine stations for 14 days.

And foreign diplomats who were quarantined inside North Korea have been evacuated to Russia. They had been kept in isolation since early February over fears of a coronavirus outbreak in the country.

Let's go now to Will Ripley, standing by in Tokyo for that side to this story. Tell us. This was going to happen a while ago. It got delayed. Why are they doing it and why know?

WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This, Michael, I think is the first flight that has actually left North Korea since the country suspended flights and sealed its borders pretty much within days of the onset of this coronavirus outbreak.

They had been keeping those foreign diplomats in total isolation since early February. The conditions described by a source of mine inside the country as very difficult, dull. They couldn't leave their compounds. They basically had nothing to do.

And at the same time, their cash and supplies have been running out, because remember, North Korea isn't a country with a banking system where you can wire money. You have to basically hand carry in everything, including the money that you use to pay for things, like electricity, and fuel, and food, and water, and that sort of thing.

So it's been a pretty difficult situation for the diplomatic staffers, around 300 or so, who are believed to be inside North Korea. I am told by a source who was on that evacuation flight early this morning -- and we have some photos of the convoy leaving Pyongyang, the diplomatic convoy, provided to us by the U.K. ambassador to North Korea.

Basically, there were 103 people who were on that flight. The reason why they didn't go to Beijing, and they went to Vladivostok instead is because there are so many travel restrictions in place for Beijing. So they had to choose the other city that North Korea's airline, Air Koryo, you know, normally flies to on a regular basis, which is Vladivostok, Russia. So the flight landed with those diplomats on board. Now the German, Swiss, and French missions are completely shut down. And a number of other countries, including Russia, Pakistan, Egypt, Nigeria, Cambodia, they have all scaled back their operations.

So basically, if you have 100 or so people on the flight, 300 diplomats inside North Korea, the number of foreign diplomats inside that country is now cut by a third. And for those who remain, it's not clear how they're going to get those supplies, the cash, and the other things they need to continue their operations.

But certainly, you know, from you know, a diplomatic perspective, any time you have such a large percentage of the diplomatic corps leave a country, that only serves to further isolate North Korea at a time that they might need the help of the international community, given the unknown status of the coronavirus situation inside that country.

North Korea has yet to confirm a single case of the virus, but a lot of outside observers are fearful that, in fact, there may be people in the country who are sick and unable to get medical treatment because, A, the country isn't testing; and B, they just don't have the made the medical capabilities to handle a coronavirus outbreak.

HOLMES: Yes and if it became very serious, God knows what would happen in a country like North Korea without the infrastructure to treat it. Will, good to see you. Thank you. Will Ripley in Tokyo.

ALLEN: Well, countries in the Middle East are taking measures to contain the spread of the virus. Qatar and Saudi Arabia temporarily banning travelers from several countries.

HOLMES: Meanwhile, Egypt reporting its first fatality. A 60-year-old tourist from Germany. Plus, a quarantined cruise ship in Luxor has dozens of confirmed cases, we're told, of the coronavirus.

CNN's Sam Kiley with the details.

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SAM KILEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The Egyptian authorities have confirmed that 45 people on a Nile Cruise ship have been affected by the coronavirus. Eleven of them have not yet tested positive, but 34 have tested positive. They've all been flown to a remote desert hospital in the west of Egypt to join others who've been quarantined.

Among them was Matt Swider, a tech journalist from New York, who tweeted pictures of his journey there in the military aircraft that took the patients to the hospital, and of his arrival in the western desert.

On top of that, there have been substantial crowds gathering outside Ministry of Health offices in Cairo, seeking tests for the coronavirus ahead of traveling to employment or the hopes of employment elsewhere in the region.

Both countries have said that people need to be tested before they can travel, particularly to the United Arab Emirates.

In Bahrain, the Formula One race there is going to go ahead, but they will be no crowd watching it. There will be people able to watch it, obviously, on television, but no crowds will be in attendance there.

And Saudi Arabia has locked down an entire province, the province of Qatif, a population of about half a million people, where laborers are being told not to report for work as this virus continues to spread across the Middle East.

Sam Kiley, CNN, in Abu Dhabi.

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HOLMES: Well, it was a massive turnout in Santiago, Chile, for an International Women's Day march.

ALLEN: However, police say there were acts of violence in the crowd. We'll show you how they responded when we come back.

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HOLMES: people around the world marched peacefully on Sunday in honor of women's -- International Women's Day.

ALLEN: And happy International Women's Day, everyone.

HOLMES: Yes.

ALLEN: However, in Santiago, Chile, police say some of the marchers were violent. Check this out. It is a military tank firing water cannon to break up the crowd here. Chileans have been protesting for months now, demanding social and economic equality.

HOLMES: Police say the march in Santiago drew about 125,000 people. At least 7 were detained. Fourteen police officers injured during the event. But the vast majority of people marking the day peacefully, as you see.

ALLEN: A huge crowd.

And some very tense scenes at a march in Mexico City. Some women there and in other Latin American countries have been protesting incidents of femicide. That's the murder of women because of their gender. Protestors painted the ground with names of women recently killed. They called out, "We're women, not trash."

HOLMES: CNN's Matt Rivers is in Mexico City with more on one case of femicide that is still unsolved.

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MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's always tough for Lidia Florencio (ph) to talk about her daughter. And as we look at old pictures, she breaks down a bit.

It's clear that this day is harder than others.

"She would have turned 27 years old today," she says. "I can't explain how painful it is knowing I'll never see my daughter again."

Her daughter, Diana Velazquez Florencio, was raped and murdered not far from her house in July 2017. Two and a half years later, there's still no suspect.

"Who killed her? What did they tell her during the last moments of her life? Why did they do it?" she asks. "All those questions and the government has done nothing to help. Where is the murderer?"

Police haven't responded yet to our request for comment, but Diana's murder was classified by police as a femicide, the term used when women are killed because of their gender. One thousand and six such murders took place in Mexico last year.

LIDIA FLORENCIO (PH), MOTHER OF MURDERED DAUGHTER: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

RIVERS (on camera): So with that says is basically, No forgiving, no forgetting. Justice for Diana Velasquez Florencio.

(voice-over): Lidia brought a bigger version of that to Mexico City on Sunday. Her daughter's image joining thousands of other signs as protesters filled the streets.

This woman says, "We're here to demand rights for women and for justice for femicide victims."

Overall, 10 women per day were murdered in Mexico in 2019.

This woman says, "I'm here to unite with other women to stand with them to demand justice."

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's response has faced heavy criticism, as he's blamed the problem on past governments.

"It's a process of progressive degradation that has to do with the neoliberal mafia (ph)," he says.

For Lidia (ph), it all adds up to an inadequate government response.

She says, "We're here because the authorities are lazy and inept. We're demanding that the federal government takes gender violence seriously."

So, she marches. A mother is actively fighting for her daughter and for everyone else's.

(CHANTING)

RIVERS: "Ni uno mas. Ni un asesinato mas," they chant: Not one more, not one more murder. Matt Rivers, CNN, Mexico City.

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