Japan and the United States on Wednesday geared up to airlift hundreds of their citizens from ground zero of China's deadly virus epidemic, which has so far claimed more than 100 lives.
It was a “bit too early” to consider outbreak a “Public Health Emergency of Int'l Concern,” WHO Emergency Committee panel chair Didier Houssin said after body met in Geneva.
Brent crude futures LCOc1 were down $1.05, or 1.7%, to $62.16 a barrel by 0125 GMT, and earlier dropped to the lowest since Dec. 4, after falling 2.1% the previous session.