Americans Should Reconsider Any Travel Outside Country Amid Coronavirus Spread: State Department

Tourists visit the Luxor Temple in Egypt's southern city of Luxor on March 11, 2020. Khaled Desouki/AFP via Getty Images

Americans should think carefully about traveling outside the country because of the spread of the new coronavirus, which causes a disease called COVID-19.

That’s the warning the State Department issued late March 11.