New Chinese city locked down over virus after first foreign death

Workers drying out noodles at a local factory in in Dong'ao Village of Caocun Town in Rui'an City in Wenzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province. Authorities on Sunday announced curbs on people movement in the district of nine million people due to the coronavirus epidemic. - Xinhua/ANN

BEIJING: China imposed a lockdown Sunday (Feb 2) on a major city far away from the epicentre of a coronavirus epidemic, as its death toll from the disease rose to 304 and the first foreign fatality was reported in the Philippines.

The events added to deepening concerns about the potential for the virus to spread, as more governments around the world closed their borders to people from China.