Footage has emerged appearing to show a man being forcibly removed from the Guangzhou metro by security staff for not wearing a face mask, after the South China province implemented a mandatory order to wear them amid the coronavirus crisis.
Chinese
companies are working overtime to produce masks amid soaring demand caused by
the country’s coronavirus outbreak.
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A German
man who tested positive for the strain of coronavirus sweeping across China was
infected by a work colleague, officials said on Tuesday, in what is believed to
be the first human transmission in Europe.
The Hong
Kong leader, Carrie Lam, said on Tuesday the high-speed rail service between
the city and mainland China would be suspended from Thursday, and all
cross-border ferry services would also be suspended in a bid to stop the spread
of coronavirus.
Grant
Shapps, the transport secretary, has said the government is working on plans to
repatriate UK nationals in Wuhan, the Chinese region at the centre of the
coronavirus outbreak. He called on Britons in the region to contact the British
consulate.
The head of
the World Health Organization has said he is confident in China’s ability to
contain a new coronavirus that has killed 106 people and he called for calm,
Chinese media reported.
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