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WORLD NEWS Monday 3 February 2020
China reports 361 dead from

new virus, total of 17,205 cases

BEIJING (AP) — China on to handle coronavirus pa- but not to New Zealand
Monday reported 361 have tients in Wuhan is expected residents. New Zealand
died on the mainland from to open on Monday, just 10 also raised its travel advice
the new virus, with an addi- days after construction be- for China to "Do not travel,"
tional 2,829 new cases over gan. the highest level.
the last 24 hours bringing A second hospital is set to Qatar Airways joined the
the Chinese total to 17,205. open soon after. growing number of airlines
The latest figures Monday Also, six officials in the city suspending flights to main-
come a day after the first of Huanggang, next to land China. Indonesia and
death from the illness was Wuhan in Hubei province, Oman also halted flights, as
recorded outside China, in were fired over "poor per- did Saudi Arabia's flagship
the Philippines, as countries formance" in handling national carrier, Saudia. A family wearing protective masks crosses a street in
Mandaluyong, east of Manila, Philippines on Sunday, Feb. 2,
around the world evacu- the outbreak, the official Saudi Arabia's state-run 2020.
ated hundreds of their Xinhua News Agency re- media reported that 10 Associated Press
citizens from the infection ported. It cited the mayor Saudi students were evac-
zone. as saying the city's "capa- uated from Wuhan on a tary transport plane car- flew home 167 of its peo-
Chinese authorities com- bilities to treat the patients special flight. It said the stu- rying 42 people arrived in ple, mostly students.
pleted a new, rapidly con- remained inadequate and dents would be screened Ankara on Saturday night. Indonesia flew back 241
structed 1,000-bed hospital there is a severe shortage on arrival and quarantined A French-chartered plane citizens from Wuhan on
for victims of the outbreak in medical supplies such as for 14 days. made its way toward Sunday and quarantined
and delayed the reopen- protective suits and medi- Over the weekend, South France on Sunday with 300 them on the remote Na-
ing of schools in the hard- cal masks." Korea and India flew hun- evacuees from a multitude tuna Islands for two weeks.
est-hit province. Restric- The trading and manu- dreds of their citizens out of European and African Several hundred residents
tions were tightened still fur- facturing center of Wen- of Wuhan. A Turkish mili- countries. And Morocco protested the move.q
ther in one city by allowing zhou, with nearly 10 million
only one family member to people in coastal Zhejiang
venture out to buy supplies province, confined people
every other day. to their homes, allowing
The Philippine Health De- only one family member
partment said a 44-year- to venture out every other
old Chinese man from Wu- day to buy necessary sup-
han, the city at the center plies. Huanggang, home to
of the crisis, was hospital- 7 million people, imposed
ized Jan. 25 with a fever, similar measures on Satur-
cough and sore throat day.
and died after develop- With no end in sight to the
ing severe pneumonia. The outbreak, authorities in Hu-
man's 38-year-old female bei and elsewhere have
companion, also from Wu- extended the Lunar New
han, tested positive for the Year holiday break, due to
virus as well and remained end this week, well into Feb-
hospitalized in isolation in ruary to try to keep people
Manila. at home and reduce the
Philippine President Ro- spread of the virus. All Hu-
drigo Duterte approved a bei schools are postponing
ban on the entry of all non- the start of the new semes-
citizens from China. The ter until further notice.
U.S., Japan, Singapore and The crisis is the latest to
Australia have imposed confront Chinese leader
similar restrictions despite Xi Jinping, who has been
criticism from China and beset by months of anti-
an assessment from the government protests in
World Health Organization Hong Kong, the re-election
that such measures were of Taiwan's pro-indepen-
unnecessarily hurting trade dence president and criti-
and travel. cism over human rights vio-
The vast majority of those in- lations in the traditionally
fected are in China; about Muslim territory of Xinjiang.
150 cases have been re- Meanwhile, the domes-
ported in two dozen other tic economy continues to
countries. slow, weighed down by
The U.S. on Sunday report- slowing demand and the
ed its ninth case, this one trade war with Washington.
involving a woman in the New Zealand announced
San Francisco Bay Area's Sunday it is temporarily bar-
Santa Clara County who ring travelers from China to
arrived in the U.S. to visit protect the South Pacific
family after recently travel- region from the virus.
ing to Wuhan. The 14-day ban applies to
A hospital specially built foreigners leaving China