China reports no new COVID-19 deaths, as some-160 current and former world leaders want help to stop a second wave of the crisis.
It has closed its land and river borders with Russia after the discovery of 59 new cases among Chinese citizens returning home via the crossing near Vladivostok.
All Chinese residents who arrive in the border region aboard Russian domestic flights will be forced to undergo a 14-day quarantine, according to a notice posted on the website of the Chinese consulate in Vladivostok. It said that only special passholders will be allowed to travel on the Russian side of the border - but it was not clear whether they would be able to cross into China.Meanwhile, Hong Kong has extended its initial two-week entry restrictions on non-residents indefinitely.
Non-citizens flying from overseas to Hong Kong will be denied entry, and those coming from mainland China, Macao and Taiwan will be barred from entering if they have been abroad in the past 14 days.China is not alone in working to prevent a second wave of infections. More than 160 current and former global leaders have urged the world's 20 major industrialised nations to approve $8bn in emergency global health funding to hasten the search for a vaccine, cure and treatment for Covid-19 and prevent a second influx.
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