Portal:Current events/2020 February 7
February 7, 2020 (Friday)
Disasters and accidents
- Five people are killed in a plane crash in Western Alaska. (NBC News)
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- 2019–20 Wuhan coronavirus outbreak
- Chinese President Xi Jinping declares people's war on the coronavirus outbreak. (The National) (Reuters)
- Li Wenliang, the doctor who tried to issue the first warnings about the coronavirus outbreak, dies after contracting the virus. (BBC)
- Italy confirms that an Italian man has contracted the virus, after he visited his girlfriend in Wuhan. (Il Messaggero)
International relations
- Russia repatriates 26 Russian children from a Syrian refugee camp. (ABC News)
Business and economy
- Credit Suisse CEO Tidjane Thiam resigns after spying scandal. (CNN)