Coronavirus: China death toll rises to 106 with first fatality in Beijing – live updates

US updates travel warning to China to highest level as mayor of Wuhan admits authorities were too slow in releasing information about virus. Follow the latest newsWuhan mayor admits mistakesWhat is the coronavirus and how worried should we be about it?Coronavirus: how to protect yourself from infectionShare your stories9.03amGMTTwo more confirmed cases of coronavirus have been diagnosed in Singapore, bringing the total number of infected patients in the city state to seven, theStraits Times reports, citing the Singaporean heath ministry.The country is imposing new entry restrictions on travellers with passports issued in Hubei, the Chinese province where the outbreak began, or those who have recently travelled there. Quarantine orders are to be imposed on the most high-risk among 2,000 recent travellers to the area already in Singapore.8.47amGMTGrant 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.His call comes as the UK appeared to be lagging behind other countries in efforts to get their nationals out of the region.We are working on it. For anybody who is there, one of the issues we have, working with our partners internationally on this, is actually identifying how many British citizens there are in Wuhan.One of the things we ’re asking people to do is to contact the consulate ...
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