Coronavirus outbreak: China says no need for 'unnecessary panic' as US, Japan announce travel curbs

The United States, Japan and others tightened travel curbs to virus-hit China on Friday even as the country insisted there was no need for countries to impose "excessive measures". "There is no need for unnecessary panic, and no need for excessive measures," Ambassador Chen Xu said. The epidemic has infected nearly 10,000 people and been declared a global emergency.