| Greetings, QuickTake readers! In this edition: Bezos gets billions richer, the longest-ever smuggling tunnel unearthed, and a first look deep into the sun.  Commuters with protective facemasks sit in a canal boat at Pratunam Pier in Bangkok on January 30, 2020. - A Thai surgical mask factory, producing 10 million masks a month, increased working hours to cope with the rising demand following an outbreak of SARS-like virus in China, with their product exported mostly to US and Europe the rest sold on the domestic market. (Photo by Mladen ANTONOV / AFP) (Photo by MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images) Photographer: MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP WHO says virus a global emergency The WHO declared the coronavirus outbreak a global public health emergency Thursday, as the death toll in China rose to at least 212 people with more than 8,100 confirmed cases worldwide. The rare designation frees up the international agency to mobilize financial and political support to contain the outbreak in countries with less-robust health systems. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised China's efforts to contain the virus, saying he had never seen a nation respond so aggressively to a disease, including building two new hospitals in only days. The announcement came shortly after CDC officials reported the first case of human-to-human transmission in the U.S. but acknowledged the risk to the public remains low. More: - 7,000 people were briefly detained aboard a Carnival-owned cruise ship in a port near Rome after a passenger came down with a fever and respiratory symptoms. Officials later confirmed there was no infection.
- Experts said racist rants, claims of miracle cures and other virus misinformation is spreading on social media and called the outbreak "the perfect intersection of fear, racism and distrust of the government and Big Pharma."
- It's only the sixth time the WHO has declared a public health emergency, which it defines as "an extraordinary event which is determined to constitute a public health risk and potentially require a coordinated international response."
$ignificant figures $13.2 billion. Jeff Bezos got that much richer in 15 minutes Thursday after Amazon shares surged, bringing his net worth to about $129.5 billion. A day earlier, Elon Musk's wealth swelled by $2.3 billion after Tesla's hot streak, boosting his assets to about $36 million. 55. At least how many people have died in southeastern Brazil after days of violent, torrential rains triggered flooding and landslides, displacing at least 47,000 others. 4,309 feet. U.S. authorities found the longest-ever smuggling tunnel on the southern border, stretching 1,313 meters from Tijuana, Mexico to San Diego and complete with an elevator and drainage system. Highly quotable "This is how the industry works." A Harvey Weinstein accuser said he told her in 2004 she'd "never make it in this business," if she didn't agree to trade movie roles for three-way sex with him and his assistant. "Don't quite tell the full story." Prince Harry lost a complaint against the Mail on Sunday that published his Instagram photos of safari animals in a story that said the rhino, elephant and lion were "drugged and tethered." "Completely devastated." In an Instagram post, Kobe Bryant's widow, Vanessa, made her first comments since the fatal helicopter crash, saying "it's impossible to imagine life without them." This is not normal At-risk. Beluga whales in Alaska's Cook Inlet are dying faster than we thought as oil spills and algal blooms threaten their habitat, which NOAA called "heartbreaking news for a species already struggling to survive."  The future is now Exquisite detail. The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Maui, Hawaii, has captured the "highest resolution image" of the Sun's surface, showing boiling plasma and "cell-like structures" that are "about the size of Texas."  What's good Never too late. No matter their age, a person's lungs "magically" repair themselves after quitting smoking, a study found, explaining protective cells actively replenish in airways and could help prevent cancer.  Now that you're caught up... Tell your friends to sign up to receive our newsletter five days a week. Follow QuickTake on Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. Before you go: NASA pulled the plug on its Spitzer Space Telescope that's been scanning the universe with infrared eyes for 16 years. See what it captured. Thanks for reading!
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