Japan plans to refuse entry to anyone who has recently travelled to Zhejiang province in China as it steps up its efforts to keep out the coronavirus.
Prime minister Shinzo Abe announced the decision at a meeting of the government's anti-coronavirus task force on Wednesday morning, expanding its restrictions beyond Hubei province, where the virus originated.
Zhejiang is a coastal province of China, hundreds of kilometres from Hubei, and has reported 1,131 cases of coronavirus to date according to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
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