WRAPUP 1-China virus toll jumps past 500 as more cases found on cruise ship off Japan
February 05, 2020 at 20:10 PM EST
The death toll from a new coronavirus in mainland China jumped by 73 to 563 on Thursday, its third consecutive record daily rise, as experts intensified efforts to find a vaccine for a disease that has shut down Chinese cities and forced thousands more into quarantine around the world.
