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Coronavirus prompts CDC to expand travel warning to all of China; top U.S. health official urges Beijing to admit disease experts

January 27, 2020 at 10:37 p.m. EST
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Even as China takes more stringent measures to limit the movement of the vast country’s population during the biggest travel period of the year, and as the United States and other countries move ahead with evacuation plans, there are increasing fears that a quarantine will not be enough to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, which so far has infected at least 4,428 people in China and killed at least 106. Here’s what we know:  
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