British National Gets Virus ‘In Asia but Not in China’: Coronavirus Updates for Feb 6

Member of the Airport Medical Service takes a temperature reading from staff members with a digital thermometer at Budapest's Liszt Ferenc Airport on Feb. 5, 2020. Attila Kisbenedek/AFP via Getty Images

Roughly two dozen countries around the world have taken precautionary measures to stem the spread of the new coronavirus as the death toll continues to rise.

This page has updates from Feb. 6. For updates from Feb. 7, click here.

British Citizen Contracts Coronavirus Outside of China

The third confirmed case of coronavirus in the United Kingdom was not contracted inside of China, British health authorities said.