Japanese tennis players, in red uniform, attend the opening ceremony of the Davis Cup qualifier between Japan and Ecuador, as it is held without spectators amid growing concern about the spread of a new coronavirus in Miki city, Hyogo prefecture, western Japan, Friday, March 6, 2020. (Nobuki Ito/Kyodo News via AP, File)
March 6, 2020
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March 6, 2020 5:54 p.m.
Virus cases top 100,000 in 90 countries as markets take dive
PARIS (AP) — Crossing more borders, the new coronavirus hit a milestone, infecting more than 100,000 people worldwide as it wove itself deeper into the daily lives of millions, infecting the powerful, the unprotected poor and vast masses in between.