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WHO head against evacuation of foreigners, says Chinese foreign ministry

The WHO said only one of the overseas cases involved human-to-human transmission.

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A thermal screeening device checks passengers arriving in India from China including Hong Kong in view of outbreak of Novel coronavirus (CoV) in China, at an airport in Kolkata

Reuters Beijing

5 min read Last Updated : Jan 28 2020 | 9:37 PM IST

The head of the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday he was confident in China's ability to contain a new coronavirus that has killed 106 people and that he did not think foreigners should be evacuated, China's foreign ministry said.

A growing number of countries have said they will evacuate their citizens from Wuhan, a central city of 11 million people and the epicentre of the outbreak. A chartered plane taking out U.S. consulate staff was set to leave Wuhan on Wednesday, a spokeswoman at the U.S. embassy in Beijing said. Some space was being offered to other U.S. citizens.

India said

Topics : Coronavirus World Health Organisation China

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