Coronavirus: US extends travel ban to UK, Ireland
The US government said it was extending its travel ban to the UK and Ireland from Monday in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The ban, announced by Vice-president Mike Pence, would begin at midnight US EST on Monday (0400 GMT Tuesday).
President Donald Trump's travel ban on 26 European countries, members of the Schengen free movement zone, came into force on Saturday.
Trump also said he had taken a coronavirus test and had been cleared with no symptoms. The president's official doctor Sean Conley said Trump had agreed to the test "after an in-depth discussion...regarding Covid-19 testing".
France on Saturday ordered non-essential locations used by the public to close and asked citizens to go out as little as possible.
The government said it would shut down cafes, shops, restaurants and cinemas to stem the spread of the outbreak, said Prime Minister Éduoard Philippe.
In Norway, the government said it would temporarily shut all its airports from Monday in a move to curb the virus's spread.
Prime Minister Erna Solberg told a news conference the government is ready to do all that is needed to secure Norway’s economy, hit by business shutdowns due to the outbreak, and would seek to import medical equipment from China.