China’s Funeral Homes Receiving Bodies That Died of ‘Unidentified Pneumonia’: Coronavirus Updates From March 9

Health staff check the body temperatures of cleaning staff arriving at the Juventus stadium before a football match in Turin, Italy, on March 8, 2020. Vincenzo Pinto/AFP via Getty Images

The new coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19, have spread to more than 80 countries and territories around the world, killing thousands.

Below are March 9 updates. For March 10 updates, click here.

China’s Funeral Homes Receiving Bodies that Died of ‘Unidentified Pneumonia’

A funeral home director in the Chinese city of Jining recently discovered that some bodies the facility received from local hospitals had death certificates marked with “unidentified pneumonia” as the cause of death.