Authorities also ordered schools and universities to remain closed on Tuesday after extending a national holiday by a week in a bid to contain an outbreak that has already killed more than 100 people and spread to a dozen countries.
Wuhan residents have been told to stay home and authorities have restricted car traffic in the city centre. China’s immigration agency has also asked citizens to delay international travel to stop the virus from spreading elsewhere overseas.Tourists from Hubei in Haikou, capital of the island province of Hainan, were told by the city government they had to spend 14 days in a hotel for centralised medical observation, and were forbidden to leave.
Schools and universities across the country were ordered not to reopen until further notice on Tuesday, a day after the holiday break was extended to try and reduce the spread of the virus. China’s film box-office earnings for Lunar New Year’s Eve on Friday were just one-tenth of last year as people shunned crowds.A Transmission Electron Microscopy image of the first isolated case of the coronavirus, as obtained by Reuters on January 27, 2020. -Courtesy of IVDC, China CDC via GISAID/Handout via Reutersordered sterilisation and ventilation at airports and bus stations, as well as inside planes and trains, while travellers are being screened for fever.
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