Man quarantined on cruise ship in Japan becomes first Briton to die from coronavirus as WHO says epidemic could get `out of control´. Follow live newsFull story: first British coronavirus death confirmedCoronavirus fears trigger biggest one-day fall on US stock marketWhat are super-spreaders and how are they transmitting coronavirus?Share your experiences 1.35pm GMT Mexican authorities have confirmed the country´s first case of coronavirus, the second case in Latin America, says Reuters.A patient with a possible coronavirus infection went through a second test that turned up positive early on Friday, deputy health minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell Ramirez told reporters. 1.33pm GMT The coronavirus could reach most `if not all countries`, the World Health Organisation said on Friday after Nigeria confirmed sub-Saharan Africa´s first case, Reuters is reporting.`The outbreak is getting bigger,` WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told a Geneva news briefing. `The scenario of the coronavirus reaching multiple countries, if not all countries around the world, is something we have been looking at and warning against since quite a while.` 1.16pm GMT A British man who was onboard the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan has died from the coronavirus, the Japanese health ministry has confirmed.The first foreign passenger to die, his death brings the toll among passengers from the vessel to six. 1.03pm GMT Our Pablo Gutiérrez has created this set of maps illustrating how Covid-19 is spreading across the world. Related: Coronavirus map: how Covid-19 is spreading across the world 12.57pm GMT Prof Jonathan Ball, a professor of molecular virology at the University of Nottingham, has responded to media reports of a dog in Hong Kong being tested `weak positive` for coronavirus.`There is no evidence that the human novel coronavirus can infect dogs and it would be incredible for a virus to make so many species jumps in such a short space of time,` he said.`We have to differe ...
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