Beijing today rules that people traveling from the epidemic Covid-19 to the city must be isolated on 14 days.

Beijing has previously asked domestic residents to return to the capital after the New Year holidays to quarantine themselves but not impose rules on people from abroad.

Now, as nCoV is spreading rapidly in countries in Europe, the Middle East and East Asia, Beijing Health Committee spokesman Cao Xiaojun told reporters today that people come "from the In the foreign country where there is a serious epidemic situation, it is necessary to accept medical surveillance at home or stay in place for 14 days ".

The cities of Qingdao and Dalian in northeastern China have announced similar measures. Yesterday, more than 250 people traveling from South Korea to eastern China were quarantined after they found passengers had a fever on two flights. Korea was the second largest outbreak after mainland China with more than 1,200 people infected and 12 died.

China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was "exploring the possibility" of applying scientific, appropriate and targeted prevention and control measures to people from abroad. Beijing has previously criticized nations for imposing bans on people from China.

China today found that a nCoV-infected person had traveled from Iran to Russia to reach the country. Iran recorded 139 cases, 19 died.

The Covid-19 epidemic appears in 41 countries and territories after its onset in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Worldwide, more than 81,000 people have been infected, more than 2,700 have died and more than 30,000 have recovered.