Mainland China
The local government said it had reprimanded the people responsible for the earlier announcement, made just hours ago.
The situation has worsened in Italy and South Korea, with some regions placed under 'unprecedented' restrictions.
Health officials confirmed that some 242 people had died from the flu-like virus in China’s Hubei province on Wednesday.
More than 1,100 people have now been tested for the virus in the UK.
The first death from the virus outside China has been reported in the Philippines.
The death toll in the country has risen to 132.
I have lived in the UK for over 10 years but I'm still scared for myself and my family, pro-democracy activist John Song* writes.
Commons foreign affairs committee chair Tom Tugendhat says Britain has a role in calming increasingly violent clashes between protesters and police.
Leader Carrie Lam has said the extradition bill is 'dead'.
Protests in Hong Kong escalated over the weekend as around two million people took to the streets over an extradition bill that could see HK citizens sent to mainland China for trial. Over the weekend, leader Carrie Lam issued a public apology and said she would indefinitely suspend the bill. On Monday, activist Joshua Wong was released from prison, where he has been since he was arrested during the 2014 pro-democracy protests.