The United States government has warned its citizens against travelling to China after the death toll for the coronavirus rose on Friday to 213.
The advisory also came after the World Health Organisation had declared the virus a global emergency. The State Department raised its warning alert to the highest level, telling Americans no to travel to China at the same time urging those already there to leave.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the organisation’s worst fear was that the virus would spread to countries with weaker health systems.
Total infections have already surpassed the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic of two decades ago.
Meanwhile, Zimbabwean authorities have said that they are on high alert and have since set apart Wilkins Hospital as the would-be quarantine zone for coronavirus cases.
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