Coronavirus: can you travel to China and how dangerous is it?

Airlines suspend flights as UK government warns against ‘all but essential travel’

Child in China
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The UK Foreign Office is advising against all but essential travel to mainland China as the death toll from the new strain of coronavirus sweeping across the Asian nation reaches 132.

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