Were already on $9k mark and may reached another resistance too. It may not only because of the corona or the Chinese New year. Halving is also approaching that many users want to grab the momentum to buy and get some profit before or after halving.
I don't think that the reason for this pump is the Novel Corona Virus news. But, there really could be a connection however, I'm not thinking that there's something with that. For the Chinese New Year, it's already done and I don't think there's still relation to it.
Because for the past years, the effect of CNY is always a dumping. But with the scenario now, we're seeing a pump instead.