The death toll looks likely to surpass that of the 2002-03 SARS outbreak, as five British nationals, including a child, are infected with the virus at a ski resort in France.
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd on Friday banned"any guests holding Chinese, Hong Kong or Macau passports, regardless of when they were there last" from boarding the company's ships.
The WHO warned on Friday against the"unnecessary, unhelpful profiling of individuals based on ethnicity".WHO expert Mike Ryan said the number of new cases in Hubei had stabilised over the past four days,"which may reflect the impact of control measures put in place".
The virus has been a blow to China's already-slowing economy, with Goldman Sachs cutting its first-quarter GDP growth target to 4 per cent from 5.6 per cent previously and saying a deeper hit is possible. "It's certainly not going to be a return to normal next week," said Julian Evans-Pritchard, senior China economist at Capital Economics in Singapore.
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