South Koreans petition for government to restrain citizens from travelling to Southeast Asia

On Feb 5, South Korea reported two more cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the total to 18. One of the latest patients is believed to have caught the virus in Singapore. A petition has been raised on the presidential office’s website, calling for the government to restrain citizens from travelling to Southeast Asia. According to officials, the patient was in Singapore from Jan 18 to 24. He started running a fever the next day and went the hospital. However, he was not checked for the virus and only underwent regular checks because he had not travelled to China. Read more:

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