Passengers leave LAX after arriving from Shanghai, China, after a positive case of the coronavirus was announced in the Orange County suburb of Los Angeles, California, January 26. REUTERS/Ringo Chiu
Reuters: U.S. tells citizens not to travel to China as virus toll tops 200
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) - The U.S. government warned Americans not to travel to China as the death toll from a new coronavirus reached 213 on Friday and the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global health emergency.
A new State Department travel advisory raised the warning for China to the same level as Iraq and Afghanistan.
In a notice posted on its website, the department said: “Do not travel to China due to novel coronavirus first identified in Wuhan, China.”
The death toll in Hubei, the Chinese province at the center of the epidemic, had risen to 204 and there were 9,692 cases of infection nationally as of Thursday, Chinese health authorities said. A total of 129 cases have been reported in 22 other countries and regions, with no deaths outside China.
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Update #1: US advises against travel to China over virus outbreak (AP)
Update #2: Coronavirus: US says ‘do not travel to China’ as death toll hits 213 with 43 fatalities in country’s worst day yet (SCMP)
WNU Editor: I will not be surprised if in the next day or two almost every country in the world will be issuing the same warning.
