(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed a public message on intensified prevention of acute respiratory illness caused by new coronavirus. The message ordered restricting crowds gathering, halting festivals, and closing schools.
As of Monday morning, the death toll from a coronavirus epidemic in China rose to 361. 27 countries and territories are infectious with more than 14,500 contracted cases. Philippines reported the first death from new coronavirus outside China.