The National Health Commission raises the official number of deaths from Cove in 19 in the city of Wuhan to 3869 a 50% increase.

In Myanmar, officials released 25,000 prisoners, Ah higher number than normal to mark the country's traditional New Year celebration in Kazakhstan, two American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut land safely after months on the international space station and a F P photographer Yasuyoshi Chiba wins the world Press photo of the year award with a photograph from June 2019 of a Sudanese protester shouting poetry.