N. Korea bans tourists over Wuhan virus fears
A view of Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, which has poor medical infrastructure and a chronic shortage of medicines. – EPA pic, January 22, 2020.
NORTH Korea will ban foreign tourists to protect itself against a new SARS-like virus that has claimed at leastSeveral nations including the US have stepped up checks on passengers at airports to detect the coronavirus, which first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, but the ban on tourists is a first.
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