The Mass Transit Railway (MTR), one of Hong Kong's biggest public transport networks, stopped selling train tickets to the Chinese city of Wuhan, following an outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus there, MTR said in a statement on Thursday

Seoul has called on its citizens to avoid all travel to eastern China, particularly the city of Wuhan, where a new type of coronavirus is believed to have originated from, or take extra precautions if they are already in the region, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said on Thursday

A coronavirus infection was not confirmed in a Chinese citizen who arrived in St. Petersburg from Beijing a week ago and was hospitalized earlier on Wednesday with suspected acute respiratory syndrome, a spokesman for the city's health committee told Sputnik