- A plane carrying around 200 French citizens evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan, epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, landed near Marseille, AFP reporters onboard the aircraft said. Information about 2019-nCoV is rapidly changing as public health officials and scientists work feverishly to understand it and curtail its spread. The messages from those international experts were quite clear about travel bans being counterproductive, potentially devastating economies. At the same time as the US is implementing a travel ban for visitors to China, the administration also expanded its travel ban to six additional Muslim majority countries. Hopefully the travel bans, which are not science based nor rational, will be quickly retracted.

Source: Forbes February 01, 2020 12:00 UTC