Via Deutsche Welle, a flood of news: Coronavirus: Germany announces sixth infection — live updates. Excerpt:
16:37 Beijing is criticizing the US for warning its citizens not to travel to China and encouraging those already there to leave.
The US state department earlier on Friday had issued an official travel advisory discouraging non-essential travel to China.
"Certain US officials' words and actions are neither factual nor appropriate," spokesperson for China's foreign affairs ministry Hua Chunying said in a statement. "Just as the WHO recommended against travel restrictions, the US rushed to go in the opposite way. Certainly not a gesture of goodwill."
16:14 Guatemala's president announces the country is imposing travel restrictions to prevent the infection from entering the country. Anyone who has been to China in the last 15 days will not be allowed to enter the country, President Alejandro Giammattei has said.
15:59 Screening people arriving from Chinese cities is not an effective way to detect coronavirus. This is according to modelling conducted by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
"Approximately 75% of cases from affected Chinese cities would arrive at their destination in the incubation period and would remain undetected, even if the efficacy of the screening test to detect symptomatic individuals were 80 per cent for both exit and entry screening," said ECDC infectious disease expert Pasi Penttinen.
The new coronavirus' incubation period is thought to be unusually long, at up to 14 days, during which time people may be contagious despite displaying no symptoms.
15:44 Here is a recap of the numbers:
• Over 9,800 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed globally.
• 9,692 of those cases are found on mainland China.
• All 213 reported deaths from the virus have also been in China, the majority of them in the Hubei province, where the outbreak originated.
15:32 Iran suspends all flights to China.
15:18 US airline Delta temporarily suspends all flights to China in response to the US elevating a travel advisory.
15:11 Sweden confirms its first case of coronavirus. In a statement, the country's public health ministry said, "It is a woman who visited the Wuhan area in China and experienced cough symptoms after arriving in Sweden. She is not gravely ill."
14:58 China's ambassador in Geneva Chen Xu says "excessive measures" like border closures are going too far and insists there is "no need for unnecessary panic."
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