Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ordered a city near the border with South Korea locked down after officials found a person who may be infected with the coronavirus, state media reported. Kim attended an emergency meeting of the Workers’ Party and took the “preemptive measure” of isolating Kaesong City following the report on the suspected case, the Korean Central ...

Bloomberg Vietnam reported two locally-transmitted coronavirus cases after more than three months of no new infections of such, prompting authorities in the city of Danang to restrict activities to prevent a wider spread of the disease. One patient, a 57-year-old man, had been in Danang city for about a month and hadn’t traveled to other provinces, the government said in ...

Bloomberg Hanna, 2020’s first Atlantic hurricane, made landfall on Padre Island Saturday evening, bringing “life-threatening” storm surges, flooding rains and tree-toppling winds to south Texas. The storm came ashore with 90-mile-per-hour (145 kmph) winds, the National Hurricane Center said in an advisory at 6 pm EDT. Hanna is moving west-south-west at about 8 miles per hour. A Category 1 storm, ...