China reports just one new domestic virus case, 20 more imported

Workers wearing suits as a preventive measure against the Covid-19 (coronavirus) as they wait for travellers beside a bus outside the New China International Exhibition Centre, near Beijing Capital Airport in Beijing on Tuesday (March 17). The exhibition centre is being used as a registration and screening center for travellers arriving in Beijing before transferring them to quarantine locations. Authorities have now ordered international arrivals into the nation's capital from March 16 onwards to go into centralised quarantine locations for 14 days. - AFP

BEIJING: China reported on Tuesday (March 17) just one new domestic coronavirus infection but found 20 more cases imported from abroad, with more regions imposing quarantines on foreign arrivals in a bid to stem the disease being brought in from overseas.

The single case in Wuhan will boost China's view that it has "basically curbed" the spread of a disease that is believed to have emerged in a live animal market in the central city in December.