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12.46 am GMT
China’s largest steelmaking metropoli of Tangshan- about 200 km east of Beijing- has announced it is suspending all public transit in an effort to prevent the spread of the brand-new coronavirus. The metropolitan has a population of around 7.5 million people.
The statement was posted on the city government’s official Weibo account, the Reuters news agency reported.
12.40 am GMT
In New Zealand there are as yet no reported cases of coronavirus, but experts say it is only a matter of hour before the illness violates the country’s borders.
Health experts are currently meeting passengers off flights arriving from China in Auckland and Christchurch. Some schools in Auckland are taking precautions by requesting pupils who have spent their summertime vacations in or near Wuhan to stay at home for a week to make sure they are not carrying the virus.
Read more: theguardian.com
