China's capital on Monday recorded its first death from a deadly coronavirus as it struggles to contain a rapidly spreading disease that has sparked global alarm, with countries scrambling to evacuate their citizens from the epicentre of the epidemic.
The death in
Beijing raises the death toll from the new virus to 82, with more than 2,700 people infected across the nation and cases found in more than a dozen other countries.
Mongolia closed its vast border to vehicles from
China while
Germany urged its citizens to avoid travelling to the country and
Malaysia banned people from central Hubei province, where the pneumonia-like virus emerged, from entering its soil.