But the World Health Organization argues against a wholesale closing of borders. FMTNews
A resident is evacuated after employees at a HK nursing home tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday.
In Washington meanwhile, the White House announced that another senior administration figure, national security advisory Robert O’Brien, had contracted the virus. The WHO said its emergency committee would meet later this week to discuss the crisis, six months after the organisation declared the pandemic an international public health emergency.
Indonesia confirmed its 100,000th coronavirus case Monday, as the Red Cross warned that the crisis in the world’s fourth most-populous country risked “spiralling out of control”. “Nobody is going to come here for a week’s holiday and then spend 14 days shut away when they get back home.”
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