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China slams US travel controls as virus toll spikes further

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AP Beijing
Last Updated : Feb 01 2020 | 12:50 PM IST

The death toll in China's virus outbreak rose to 259 on Saturday and Beijing criticized Washington's tightening of travel controls to bar most foreign nationals who visited the country within the past two weeks.

South Korea and India evacuated their citizens from the locked-down Chinese city at the center of an area where some 50 million people are barred from leaving in a sweeping anti-disease effort. Indonesia was sending a plane.

The number of confirmed infections in China rose to 11,791.

The United States declared a public health emergency Friday and President Donald

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First Published: Feb 01 2020 | 12:50 PM IST

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