Bloomberg Toyota Motor Corp and other Japanese automakers reported steep drops in output in February as the coronavirus outbreak accelerated across the world, a sign that business conditions will get worse for them before any improvement. Japan’s biggest automaker reported that its global production fell 13.8% in February from a year earlier. Worldwide production for the Toyota Group, which includes ...

Bloomberg It’s the phone calls at all hours of the night he remembers. As swine flu ravaged northern India in 2015, a radiologist working at a hospital in a Delhi suburb said people would call begging for a bed. That outbreak ultimately infected more than 31,000 people and killed nearly 2,000, as many died waiting for treatment. With the far ...

Bloomberg Indonesia may soon quarantine almost 30 million people in its capital and surrounding areas to curb the spread of the coronavirus that’s killed more than 100 people in the world’s fourth-most populous nation. Police and transport officials conducted drills on limiting the movement of people from the Greater Jakarta area at the weekend, the Jakarta Post reported. The governor ...