The US will start screening travellers for coronavirus and ramp up production of masks and test kits as the government scrambles to reassure Americans as the disease spreads and world stock markets tumbled last week. The first American died from coronavirus, a man in his 50s with underlying conditions in Washington state, officials said Saturday. They still do not know how he contracted the disease. President Donald Trump on Sunday said travellers from countries at high risk of coronavirus would be screened before boarding and upon arrival, without specifying which countries. <br/>
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Nigerian authorities have contacted around 100 people who may have been exposed to an Italian man who is the country's first coronavirus patient, a Lagos state official said Sunday, in a bid to stop an outbreak in Africa's most populous country. The Italian man arrived in Lagos on Feb. 24 from Milan on a Turkish Airlines flight that had a connection in Istanbul. The following day he travelled to neighbouring Ogun state and was in the country for almost two full days before being isolated. Asked about the number of people Nigerian authorities had been in touch with who may have had contact with the man, Lagos state Health Commissioner Akin Abayomi said: "It is around 100 people but that number is increasing every minute."<br/>
It's one of the largest industries in the world, with US$5.7t in revenue. It is responsible for an estimated 319m jobs, or roughly one in 10 people working on the planet. And no sector is more at risk from the novel coronavirus. The travel industry has already taken a huge hit due to travel restrictions and cancelled trips for both business and pleasure, but that's just the beginning. It could be the worst crisis for the industry since the September 11 terrorist attacks on the US, according to some experts. "It's on the front line of the fallout," said Mark Zandi, chief economist with Moody's Analytics. "It's the most directly and immediately impacted." "If you measure the entirely of the impact of travel, it is bigger than any other industry around the world. No other industry can say it supports 1 in 10 jobs," said Adam Sacks, president of Tourism Economics. "It's partly because it's such a diverse industry. It includes a lot of things you don't think of. Besides airlines and hotels, it's part of retail, part of restaurants, parts of technology."<br/>
Vietnam's major international airports have suspended flights carrying passengers from South Korea amid coronavirus outbreak, announced the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAV). Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport and Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City have suspended receiving flights carrying passengers from the Republic of Korea due to the complicated developments of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as from March 1, said the CAV. Instead, flights will land at Van Don (Quang Ninh province) and Can Tho international airports. Flights carrying goods from South Korea could still land at Noi Bai and Tan Son Nhat airports as scheduled.<br/>