Singapore and Mongolia will bar entries from China. Singapore on Friday announced a sweeping ban on Chinese visitors and other foreigners who had been to China in the past 14 days, in an escalation of travel restrictions by the Southeast Asian transportation hub. Singapore currently has 13 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The outbreak and the entry shutdown will be another blow to its economy, which was already hit by the fallout from the United States-China trade war. Regional neighbors and airlines from countries that have not had any confirmed cases are also taking extra precautions to cope with rapidly spreading epidemic.

Source: New York Times January 31, 2020 05:18 UTC