As of February 19, over 75,000 people worldwide have been infected, nearly all of them in mainland China, and some 2,012 people have died from the coronavirus.

An IDF humanitarian delegation is en route to Brazil where a dam rupture at an iron mine has killed some 40 people, with about 300 missing.

An Israeli team from the Israel Center for Disaster Medicine and Humanitarian Response at Sheba Medical Center is in the Zambian capital of Lusaka on a relief mission.