Students wearing masks amid a health scare over a new virus that has infected thousands in a Chinese school in Quezon City, Metro Manila, The Philippines stopped issuing visas on arrival to Chinese nationals on Tuesday (Jan 28), in a bid to keep the South-East Asian nation free of a new virus that has killed 106 and infected more than 4,500 in China. - Reuters
MANILA: The Philippines stopped issuing visas on arrival to Chinese nationals on Tuesday (Jan 28), in a bid to keep the South-East Asian nation free of a new virus that has killed 106 and infected more than 4,500 since emerging in China in December.
There have been no confirmed cases in the Philippines since the coronavirus outbreak began in China's central city of Wuhan, but infections have been confirmed in Japan, Nepal, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam.
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