POTENTIALS COMING UP.

BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT ON

THE CORONAVIRUS THE STATE

DEPARTMENT HAS ISSUED A DO NOT

TRAVEL WARNING TO AMERICANS

HOPING TO VISIT CHINA.

THIS IS AFTER MAJOR

DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FIGHT

AGAINST THE VIRUS.

THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

HAS DECLARED A GLOBAL EMERGENCY

WHICH PUTS A COORDINATED

INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE TOGETHER.

CHINA NOW HAS MORE THAN 9600

CASES WITH THE DEATH TOLL OF

213.

NO ONE TO THIS POINT HAS DIED

OUTSIDE OF CHINA. TODAY WE

LEARNED THE DISEASE DID SPREAD

BETWEEN A CHICAGO COUPLE.

LET'S GET TO JULIE LIVE WHERE

OFFICIALS ARE ON ALERT.

Reporter: THIS IS ONLY THE

SIX THE TIME SUCH AN EMERGENCY

HAS BEEN DECLARED BY YOU AND

HEALTH LEADERS.

STILL HERE IN THE U.S. LEADERS

SAY THE RISK IT TO AMERICANS IS

STILL VERY LOW.

THURSDAY NIGHT ANOTHER FLIGHT

FROM HONG KONG DELIVERED DOZENS

OF PASSENGERS IN PROTECTIVE

MASKS TO BOSTON.

TRAVELERS WHO HAD BEEN LIVING

IN CHINA NOW RELIEVED TO BE HOME

.

THE ORIGINAL SCHEDULE WAS

FOR HER TO COME BACK THE MIDDLE

OF FEBRUARY. WE HEARD ALL KINDS

OF RUMORS THAT THE FLIGHT

BETWEEN CHINA AND THE UNITED

STATES WAS GOING TO BE

CANCELED.

THE WORLD HEALTH

ORGANIZATION HAS DECLARED THE

CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK A GLOBAL

EMERGENCY.

OUR GREATEST CONCERN IS THE

POTENTIAL FOR THE VIRUS TO

SPREAD TO COUNTRIES WITH WEAKER

SYSTEMS, WHICH ARE ILL-PREPARED

TO DEAL WITH IT.

THERE ARE NO REPORTED CASES

OF CORONAVIRUS IN MASSACHUSETTS

. IN ILLINOIS THE CDC HAS

CONFIRMED THE FIRST PERSON-TO-

PERSON TRANSMISSION IN THE U.S.

. A WOMAN IN HER 60s WHO

RECENTLY RETURNED TO CHICAGO

AND INFECTED HER HUSBAND.

THIS NEWLY REUNITED COUPLE IN

BOSTON WELL AWARE OF HOW THE

WIFE'S RETURN COULD BE

PERCEIVED.

I WOULD QUARANTINE MYSELF A

WEEK OR SO BEFORE GOING.

THAT COUPLE IN CHICAGO IS

REPORTEDLY IN STABLE CONDITION

AT THE HOSPITAL.

HERE IN BOSTON THERE ARE

ENHANCED SCREENINGS THAT ARE

EXPECTED TO BEGIN HERE SOON.

RIGHT NOW THESE PASSENGERS

ARRIVING FROM HONG KONG STILL

BEING ASKED ABOUT THEIR TRAVELS