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
China has agreed to allow American health experts into the country to help in the effort to fight the coronavirus outbreak, US officials said on Monday as they pushed back against Beijing’s assertion that Washington has overreacted with its aggressive response to the crisis.
“China has accepted the United States’ offer to incorporate a group of experts into a World Health Organisation mission to China to learn more about and combat the virus,” White House spokesman Judd Deere said.
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