ALMATY — Kazakhstan is suspending all passenger travel to and from neighboring China, the Kazakh government said on Wednesday, as an outbreak of a new coronavirus spread. Buses to and from China have already been halted, trains will stop on Feb. 1 and all flights will be suspended from Feb. 3, the government said. Kazakhstan has registered no cases of the new virus, but it has isolated dozens of people with respiratory infection symptoms on their return from China and is carrying out additional tests. Kazakhstan is so far the only country in the ex-Soviet Central Asian region to completely shut down travel links with China over the virus. (Reporting by Olzhas Auyezov; Additional reporting by Nazarali Pirnazarov in Dushanbe editing by Larry King and Nick Macfie)

Source: National Post January 29, 2020 12:56 UTC