Japan has the world's oldest population, and the virus can be especially dangerous for the elderly.
Analysts expect China's gross domestic product to have shrunk 6.5% in January-March from a year earlier, according to a Reuters poll.
Exports to the United States fell from 20.8% to $25.2 billion while imports of American goods declined 12.6% to $9.9 billion.
North Korea has been conducting weeks of military drills, including several launches of short-range ballistic missiles in recent weeks.
The "stay home" message has incensed many who note most Japanese cannot remain at home because the government's social distancing policy is voluntary and doesn't come with compensation for cash-strapped workers.
The Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila said Friday that the top diplomats of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations linked up by video Thursday in a meeting led by Vietnam.
Such cases now account for about a quarter of Singapore's 1,910 infections. The government reported 287 new cases Thursday, its biggest daily jump. More than 200 were linked to the foreign workers' dormitories.
Prime Minister Abe said he was expecting widespread compliance despite the lack of legal penalties for violating calls for social distancing and other measures.
According to airport official Lou Guowei, the first departing flight left Wuhan Tianhe International Airport at 7:25 a.m. for Sanya, a coastal city in Hainan province known for its beaches.
Restrictions in the city where most of China's more than 82,000 virus cases and over 3,300 deaths were reported to have been gradually relaxed in recent weeks as the number of new cases steadily declined. The latest government figures reported Tuesday listed no new cases.
Chinese leaders are eager to revive the economy, but the bleak situation in Huangpi in Wuhan's outskirts highlights the damage to farmers struggling to stay afloat after the country shut down for two months.
Authorities are easing controls that kept Wuhan's 11 million people at home for two months, but many shops are still closed.
From Mumbai to Rio de Janeiro to Johannesburg the same story is playing out in some of the world's most unequal regions, where tens of millions live in crowded slums without adequate water, sanitation and access to health care.
Cheng Lai-king was released early Thursday afternoon after being formally charged with sedition earlier in the day, public broadcaster RTHK said.
Huawei is at the center of tensions with Washington over technology and possible spying that helped to spark Trump's tariff war with China in 2018.
The International Olympic Committee and Japanese organizers last week postponed the Olympics until 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Wuhan's bus and subway service has resumed, easing curbs that cut most access to the city of 11 million people on Jan. 23 as China fought the coronavirus.
Thousands of tourists escaping cold weather in Europe were scrambling this week to find alternative ways to return home from the Thai island of Phuket in the Adaman Sea.
The meeting comes amid criticism that the world's wealthiest countries have not taken cohesive action to combat the virus or its economic impact on people around the world.
The Olympic flame is set to arrive in Japan from Greece even as the opening of the Tokyo Games in four months is in doubt with more voices calling for the event to be postponed or canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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