RE: NCYT3 Feb 2020 09:27
As coronavirus takes over China, G7 countries will discuss a joint response to the epidemic. Germany's health minister on Sunday said he had talked on the phone with his US counterpart and “we agreed that there should be a conference call, a discussion by G7 health ministers about this question with the aim of dealing with it together”. Spahn added: “There is no point in each country deciding on measures alone”.
The Group of Seven (G7) comprises Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The United States, Australia, New Zealand and Israel have banned foreign nationals from visiting if they have been in China recently, and they have also warned their own citizens against travelling there. Mongolia, Russia and Nepal have closed their land borders.
The number of countries reporting coronavirus infections rose to 24 after Britain, Russia and Sweden confirmed their first cases this weekend.