Coronavirus deaths hit 259 as China voices anger at US travel ban

Foreign ministry says US measures are ‘certainly not a gesture of goodwill’ amid rising toll in China

China has reacted angrily to a US entry ban on foreign nationals who have visited the country in the past two weeks, as countries around the world raced to contain the coronavirus outbreak amid a rising death toll.

The US administration on Friday declared the virus a public health emergency, although it insisted the risk to Americans remained low.

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