The United States warned against travel to China on Monday and Canada issued a more narrow travel warning as the death toll from the spreading coronavirus passed 100, with tens of millions stranded during the biggest holiday of the year and global markets rattled.
Global stocks fell, oil prices hit three-month lows, and China’s yuan dipped to its weakest level in 2020 as investors fretted about damage to the world’s second-biggest economy from travel bans and the Lunar New Year holiday, which China extended in a bid to keep people at home.
China said on Tuesday that 106 people had died from a new coronavirus that is spreading across the country, up from the previous toll of 81.
The number of total confirmed cases in China rose to 4,515 as of January 27, the National Health Commission said in a statement, up from 2,835 reported a day earlier.

China virus death toll passes 100 as US, Canada issue travel warning

Passengers wearing masks wait in a line to check-in to a flight to Shanghai at the Vaclav Havel International Airport in Prague, Czech Republic, on January 27, 2020. (AP)
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Tuesday 28 January 2020
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