A woman wearing a protective mask passes the New York Stock Exchange on Monday. The US says its offer to join a World Health Organisation mission to China to fight the coronavirus has been accepted. Photo: AFP
A woman wearing a protective mask passes the New York Stock Exchange on Monday. The US says its offer to join a World Health Organisation mission to China to fight the coronavirus has been accepted. Photo: AFP

Coronavirus: US says Beijing will allow its health experts into China to help combat outbreak

  • American public health agency also says US actions are ‘science based’ and are not an overreaction to the contagion
  • Measures including a travel ban are aimed at ‘slowing the entry of the virus into the United States’, CDC says

A woman wearing a protective mask passes the New York Stock Exchange on Monday. The US says its offer to join a World Health Organisation mission to China to fight the coronavirus has been accepted. Photo: AFP
A woman wearing a protective mask passes the New York Stock Exchange on Monday. The US says its offer to join a World Health Organisation mission to China to fight the coronavirus has been accepted. Photo: AFP
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