Some 1.4 million pupils have returned to school in Wuhan, the Chinese city that shot to prominence for being the world's first epicentre of the novel coronavirus, while in Hungary a plan to close the border to foreigners receives a rebuke from the EU.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has come under fire for making the unilateral border decision.
Hungarians returning from abroad will now need to quarantine for two weeks unless they twice test negative for coronavirus. It registered 132 new cases on Friday, the nation's second-highest figure since the start of the pandemic. European Commission spokesman Christian Wigand told reporters that "there can be no discrimination between EU citizens when it comes to travel restrictions".
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