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First confirmed coronavirus death outside Hubei

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Airports around the world are implementing screening checks for passengers with potential coronavirus infections.

Italy received its latest direct flight from Wuhan on Thursday morning, with 202 passengers directed through a special “health channel” at Rome’s Fiumicino airport, where they were subject to body temperature checks.

The Italian health ministry had announced the special measures a day before.

“The health checks arranged by the health ministry at Fiumicino airport on the 202 passengers and the crew that arrived in Rome this morning on a flight from Wuhan were all negative,” Carlo Racani, the health director for the Rome airports company told ANSA.

“They are all well”.





A number of universities in Scotland have student exchange arrangements with Chinese institutions, Libby Brooks reports.

Glasgow University has a partnership agreement with the Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, where the current outbreak began, with 23 students currently studying at Glasgow on that programme. The university issued guidance to its students yesterday to follow the advice being issued on the Coronavirus outbreak, adding: “We are conscious that our students may have family and friends in the locality and our thoughts are with anyone who may have been affected”.

Dundee University also has a joint education partnership with the University of Wuhan, with 34 students currently studying in Scotland.

A spokesperson for the Dundee University said: “There have been no health concerns raised among that group but we will continue to monitor the situation closely.” Five staff members returned from a visit to Wuhan last week, but again, the spokesperson said that “no health concerns have been raised at this time”.

A spokesman for the University of Dundee told PA it had issued advice to students recently in China and said they should be careful if receiving items, especially food, from areas where the virus is present.

Professor Juergen Haas, the specialist in infectious diseases at the University of Edinburgh, who confirmed the Scottish tests, explained: “Here at the University of Edinburgh we have more than 2,000 students from China and they are always coming and going back to China so we are relatively sure we will have cases in the UK from travellers coming back from China.”

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Five Chinese cities now under lockdown

Five Chinese cities have been put on lockdown and Beijing has cancelled a number of major public events in an attempt to contain the spread of a deadly coronavirus outbreak.

Authorities banned transport links from Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, on Thursday morning, suspending buses, subways, ferries and shutting the airport and train stations to outgoing passengers. Later in the day, the nearby central Chinese cities of Huanggang, Ezhou and Chiba also announced traffic restrictions to prevent residents from leaving.

Starting at midnight, long-distance buses, the rapid transit system, and train station in Huanggang would be shut, according to a notice from the local government. Movie theatres, internet cafes, and other entertainment venues would all stop operating. Residents should not leave the city, except for “special reasons”.

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