CNN News:日本首相安倍称东京奥运会将按照计划举行

We've got a lot to talk about today, starting with a story concerning the Olympics.
The Summer Games are in Japan this year. Opening ceremonies are set for Friday, awesome, July 24th and the Paralympics will follow on August 25th. But a member of the Tokyo organizing committee says he's worried that the games could be impacted by the Wuhan coronavirus which has spread from China to 25 other countries, including Japan.
There were some rumors floating around online that the Tokyo Games would be cancelled because of the virus. That's fake news. Those rumors are not true. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says the games will go on as planned and that Japan would take, quote, appropriate measures to make sure planning for the games isn't affected by the virus.
While the country is hoping that the Olympics will bring more tourists to Japan throughout the year, it's having to balance that with efforts to keep the disease from spreading.

This week, a cruise ship was quarantined off the coast of Yokohama, not far from Tokyo, because an infected passenger had spent a few days aboard it. Of the 3,700 others on the Princess Cruises Diamond Princess, at least 20 have been confirmed to have caught the Wuhan coronavirus, and now, the rest of the passengers and crew are all being held on the ship in quarantine for at least two weeks.
Part of the reason for this is because scientists don't know exactly how the coronavirus spreads or how infectious it is. For instance, let's say someone is carrying the virus but doesn't know it because he has no symptoms. Could he still spread it to someone else? Researchers don't know yet. What is known is that the Wuhan coronavirus has infected more than 28,000 people since mid-December and killed more than 560 of them. The vast majority of the patients are in China.