As the number of deaths and infections in China continues to drop, authorities are now looking to prevent new outbreaks.
Health officials in Beijing have announced that they will be tightening health restrictions on international arrivals.
In a news conference on Wednesday, Beijing Health Commission spokesman Gao Xiaojun said that travelers arriving in the Chinese capital from countries with "severe epidemic situations" will have to undergo 14 days in self-quarantine in accordance with Beijing's epidemic and prevention control regulation.
Gao did not name the specific countries these new measures apply to.
Mainland China has confirmed 78,497 cases of the novel coronavirus along with 2,744 deaths.
Milestone crossed: World Health Organization (WHO) officials said yesterday that for the first time, the number of daily cases of the virus reported outside China had exceeded the number of those reported within the country where the outbreak began.
No new confirmed cases of the virus were recorded in Beijing yesterday, according to official Chinese figures, as reported by the WHO.