Live COVID-19 updates: South Korea plans to tighten quarantine measures on all passengers from the United States

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BEIJING, March 24 (Xinhua) -- The world is now in battle against the common threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, a disease caused by a previously unknown coronavirus that has spread to over 180 countries and regions around the world.

The following are the updates on the contagious illness.

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LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles County on Tuesday confirmed four more deaths linked to COVID-19 on Tuesday, including a youth under the age of 18, possibly the first minor in the United States to die from the disease.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a report issued last week that fewer than 1 percent of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States had involved people aged 19 or younger and that no one in that group had died until then.

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KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysia is extending the "movement control order" that includes comprehensive restrictive measures for two more weeks till April 14, in an effort to contain the COVID-19 outbreak, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin announced Wednesday.

In a televised speech, Muhyiddin said the number of cases in the country went up to 1,796 by noon Wednesday after an additional 172 cases had been reported, with total deaths standing at 17.

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SEOUL -- South Korea planned to tighten quarantine measures on all passengers from the United States beginning March 27 amid a growing worry about the imported cases of the COVID-19, the health authorities said Wednesday.

Yoon Tae-ho, an overall officer of disinfection at the Central Disaster Management headquarters, told a press briefing that strict quarantine measures will be enforced on arrivals from the United States beginning Friday midnight local time.

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WUHAN -- As a bus departed from its terminus at Hankou Railway Station at 5:25 a.m. Wednesday morning, Wuhan started to resume bus service after nine weeks of lockdown.

Apart from a driver, a safety supervisor was also on each bus, whose duty was to make sure all passengers are healthy as their health code shows before boarding. Enditem

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