China's coronavirus: Nigeria, Kenya, SA issue alerts; Ethiopian tasked to 'act'

Asian countries ramp up screening of new virus that has hit China, the highly contagious Corona Virus, nCoV. As at Wednesday, China's Wuhan was put on transport lockdown in a measure to control the spread of the virus.

Over in Africa, South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria - the most populous nation - say they have began screening of persons as a preventive measure whiles there are calls for the continent's biggest airline - Ethiopian Airlines - to also take a similar measure.

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