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Foreigners prepare to flee as China virus toll tops 100

Face masks are being used as a frontline defence in China and across Asia against the deadly coronavirus. [AF]

The United States and other nations raced to get their citizens out of the locked-down Chinese city at ground-zero of a virus epidemic on Tuesday, as the death toll surged to 106 and the number of confirmed infections doubled to over 4,500.

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