日韓からの入国禁止検討か　米、新型コロナで対策強化

　【ワシントン時事】トランプ米大統領は２８日、ホワイトハウスで記者団に、新型コロナウイルスの感染拡大を受け、米国への入国禁止措置の対象国拡大を検討していると明らかにした。感染者の数が「不釣り合いに高い幾つかの国」の状況を見ていると述べたが、具体的な国名には言及しなかった。ＣＮＮテレビ（電子版）は米政府高官の話として、日本と韓国が対象になる可能性があると報じた。（2020/02/29-23:31）

The United States may be considering banning entry from Japan and South Korea, which have been hit by outbreaks of the new coronavirus, it has been learned.
   "We're looking at a couple of countries--a few countries that have a little bit disproportionately high number" of patients, President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House on Friday, responding to a question about whether his government is considering expanding its current entry ban related to the new virus. "We're going to make that decision very soon," he added.
   U.S. television network CNN quoted a high-ranking U.S. official as saying that Japan and South Korea may become subject to the entry ban.
   The United States has banned foreigners who have been to China, the epicenter of the virus, in the past 14 days from entering U.S. territory.
   Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of State on Friday raised its alert for trips to Italy, which has also been hit by an outbreak of the virus, to "reconsider travel," the second highest on its four-tier warning system. The travel alert for South Korea was raised to the same level on Wednesday, while that for Japan has been kept at the third-highest level of "exercise increased caution."