I am yet to switch on my cable box over here in my condo and the news almost certainly wouldn't be in English anyway so no, i don't really know how the news is handling this. People don't seem terribly panicked at all though. It seems calm and other than people all wearing masks in public things are pretty much the same as they were when i first got here.
The people who are a bit over the top about how much they worry... it is obvious that all of their updates come from FB news stories as they cite them to the others at the table as though we weren't force-fed the same garbage.
Very interesting gooddream, and those people spreading fb stories tend to exaggerate with each telling. lol.