CORONAVIRUS | The virus has hit Europe and the US far harder than China's most immediate neighbours in South Asia, where no deaths reported so far.
| India ramped up travel restrictions and closed a border with neighbouring Myanmar to counter the coronavirus outbreak, as countries across South Asia reported a rise in cases on Wednesday.
Indian suspended issuing visas to citizens of France, Spain and Germany until further notice, a health ministry statement said late on Tuesday. "As a precautionary measure transmission of Coronavirus/COVID-19, the international border with Myanmar has been closed... until further orders," N Biren Singh, chief minister of the north-eastern state of Manipur, which shares a border with Myanmar, said in a tweet on Tuesday.
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