More than 40,000 workers at a vast Chinese-controlled industrial complex in
Indonesia have been quarantined over fears about the spread of a deadly coronavirus strain which has killed more than 200 people in China, it said Friday.
PT Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park has sealed off its nickel mining hub on Sulawesi island and is barring any of its 43,000 staff from entering or leaving without written permission.
There are some 5,000 guest workers from mainland
China at the sprawling site which hosts nickel ore smelters and stainless steel production.