U.S. universities set up front-line defences to keep coronavirus at bay


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  • Sunday, 02 Feb 2020

FILE PHOTO: A man wears a masks in Chinatown following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Chicago, Illinois U.S. January 30, 2020. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski/File Photo

(Reuters) - On its sprawling campus in America's heartland, thousands of miles from China, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has taken aggressive steps to keep the fast-spreading coronavirus away from its classrooms and students.

The school, with one of the highest percentages of Chinese students among U.S. universities, has suspended academic programs in China for the spring semester and banned students from travelling to the country for academic-related matters. It has advised faculty and staff to follow federal travel advisories that, as of Friday, warned against going to China.

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