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World health officials are scrambling to determine just how widespread the new coronavirus is as Chinese authorities reported a surge in new cases overnight.

The decision comes as the company confirmed Thursday 44 new cases of the coronavirus on the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship.

World Health Organization officials are holding a news briefing Thursday to update the public on the deadly outbreak.

China's Hubei province on Thursday reported a spike in the number of new coronavirus cases. The province said it started to include "clinically diagnosed" cases in its tally.

Singaporean bank DBS posted a 14% year-on-year rise in fourth-quarter net profit to 1.51 billion Singapore dollars ($1.09 billion), beating estimates.

As the virus has spread, pressure has mounted on the authorities to crack down on these markets.

The number of cases of the new coronavirus, named COVID-19, climbed above 45,000 with the death toll rising to at least 1,115.

The petition seeks to improve oversight amid fears of potential cross contamination.

Of the 43,100 people with the new coronavirus so far, the majority are over 40 years old and the elderly are getting hit particularly hard.

New coronavirus cases in China appear to have stabilized in recent days, but world health officials cautioned the public against reading too much into those numbers.

The company faces mounting scrutiny for its treatment of the more than 1,000 crew members onboard.

Boeing's CFO, Greg Smith, said the spread of the coronavirus could hurt aircraft deliveries in the first quarter of the year.

World Health Organization officials are holding a news briefing Wednesday to update the public on the deadly outbreak.

Singapore's DBS Group said that one of its employees had been infected with the pneumonia-like coronavirus after being tested on Feb. 11.

The number of confirmed cases rose to more than 43,100 across the world with deaths topping at least 1,018 as of Tuesday morning.

Stocks in Asia rose on Wednesday as concerns over the ongoing coronavirus outbreak abated.

The ruling stateside clears one of the final hurdles for the deal, which still can't close until the California Public Utilities Commission approves the transaction.

"We talked about China and the U.S. decoupling. The coronavirus more than the trade war has sped some of that decoupling as countries, as businesses think about their supply chain for the long run," said Curtis Chin, an Asia fellow at the Milken Institute.

"Having a name matters to prevent the use of other names that can be inaccurate or stigmatizing," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the WHO, told reporters.

Amazon has pulled out of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this month