3. China initially put secrecy and order ahead of confronting the coronavirus. We reconstructed the crucial seven weeks when it grew into a crisis.

In those weeks, the authorities silenced doctors and others for raising red flags and played down the danger. Their reluctance to go public was motivated, in part, by politics.

As a result, public health experts say, the Chinese government lost one of its best chances to keep the disease from becoming an epidemic. Now the virus has killed more than 300 people and infected more than 14,000 as of Saturday. Above, Beijing Railway Station on Saturday.

Australia and Japan joined the U.S. in temporarily barring foreigners who have recently visited China, and other countries are stepping up travel restrictions. Here’s the latest.