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Russian authorities have banned imports of animal products from China to Russia today, as well as Chinese national visits to the country, Izvestia newspaper reported.

According to the publication, it is no longer possible for travellers to import meat products from China into their hand luggage.

The measure is taken because of the Coronavirus and the ASF.

The U.S. is designating five Chinese state-run media organizations as foreign missions, a State Department official said on Feb. 18.

They include Xinhua News Agency, China Global Television Network, China Radio International, China Daily Distribution Corporation and Hai Tian Development USA.

The death toll of the coronavirus in China has reached 1,765 people after another 100 deaths were reported in Hubei, according to official figures published today.

In total, at least 70,400 people were infected in China.

The world's defense expenses rose 4 percent in 2019, compared to the previous year, a report released by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) revealed on Feb. 14. 

The report -- Military Balance 2020 --, which was revealed at the Munich Security Conference, showed the year 2019 posted the largest annual increase in defense spending during the last decade.

Bulgaria's economy will continue to grow at a moderate pace in 2020 and 2021, but it will be marked by a significant slowdown. The main reason will be the weakening internal consumption, which is the main engine of the economy, and investment will not offset this process.

China's daily death toll from a new virus topped 100 for the first time and pushed the total past 1,000 dead, authorities said on Feb. 11 after leader Xi Jinping visited a health center to rally public morale amid little sign the contagion is abating.

A total of 475 patients were discharged from the hospital by Sunday after recovery, Chinese health officials said on Monday.
The first patient in the southwestern city of Sichuan, Suining, recovered from the virus on Monday, bringing the total number of hospital discharges to 13 after recovering in that particular province.

The Korean government has decided to allocate $ 5 million to China to help fight the spread of the new coronavirus, TASS reported.

Turkey will evacuate 32 citizens and their families from China's Wuhan, at the epicentre of a new virus outbreak, in the coming days, the country's ambassador to China said on Jan. 29 as the death toll rose to 132.

China's finance ministry and China's National Health Commission have allocated nearly $ 9 billion to fight the spread of the coronavirus, Reuters reported.

The death toll has jumped to 81 people today. The government has decided to extend the lunar New Year holidays and a number of large companies have stopped work or ordered their employees to work from home.