A test event for the Tokyo Paralympics will be scaled down and held without spectators due to the coronavirus outbreak in Japan.
The Japanese Para-Sports Association says the boccia tournament will not be held as an international event.
China's central bank has lowered the benchmark rate by 0.1 percentage point to try and help businesses weather the coronavirus outbreak.
The People's Bank of China announced that this month's Loan Prime Rate is 4.05 percent, marking the first rate cut in three months.
Japan's government plans to reexamine its handling of the mass infection of the new coronavirus aboard the cruise ship Diamond Princess.
About 3,700 passengers and crew members had stayed on the ship, which remains quarantined at a dock in Yokohama.
Japan's transport and tourism minister says the coronavirus outbreak is expected to hit the country's tourism industry hard, and the government is considering support measures.
Kazuyoshi Akaba told reporters on Monday that regular passenger flights connecting Japan and China have been reduced by 60 percent. He said he is concerned about a further reduction.
The death toll from the new coronavirus in mainland China has reached 811, surpassing the number of worldwide deaths from the SARS epidemic in 2003.
China's National Health Commission reported 89 new deaths on Saturday.
The coronavirus outbreak is increasingly weighing on Japanese companies that do business in China.
Toyota Motor has decided to further postpone the resumption of operations at its factories in four cities, including Tianjin and Guangzhou. They will remain closed at least until February16 .
A third chartered plane has repatriated 149 people from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, to Japan.
The evacuees were sent to medical institutions to be tested for the virus.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has called the spread of the new coronavirus an unprecedented crisis and told a government task force not to hesitate to take necessary measures against the outbreak.
Abe issued the instruction on Friday at a meeting of the task force set up to deal with the outbreak.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says the government will not hesitate to take necessary measures against the spread of the new coronavirus.
Speaking at a Diet committee on Thursday, Abe said the government places top priority on protecting people's health and lives.
Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi discussed the outbreak of coronavirus by telephone on Sunday evening.
Motegi told Wang that Japan will provide whatever support it can to limit the spread of the virus.
Public health experts in Japan say a new coronavirus is unlikely to cause a pneumonia outbreak in the country, but that the elderly and people with chronic diseases could develop serious symptoms if infected.
The National Institute of Infectious Diseases on Friday held a media briefing on the virus believed to be the cause of pneumonia in China.
A World Health Organization official says the first case of a new strain of coronavirus in Japan is unlikely to immediately lead to a major outbreak in the country.
Takeshi Kasai, head of the WHO's Western Pacific Regional Office, was speaking to NHK on Thursday. His office covers 37 countries and territories in East and Southeast Asia.