<p class="title">Dubai Airport, one of the world's biggest aviation hubs, said Thursday it would carry out thermal screening of all passengers arriving from China amid an outbreak of a deadly virus.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Dubai Airports confirms... that all passengers arriving on direct flights from the People's Republic of China must receive thermal screening at the gate upon arrival," a statement said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">China has locked down two major cities to fight the spread of the coronavirus that has already claimed 17 lives and spread to a number of other countries.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dubai's government said on Thursday that some 989,000 Chinese tourists visited the glitzy emirate last year and that the number was expected to cross the one-million mark in 2020. Some 3.6 million Chinese transited through the airport in 2019.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The screening will be conducted on secured, closed gates at the airport by Dubai Health Authority and its Airport Medical Centre team," the statement said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dubai International Airport in 2018 served 89.15 million passengers, retaining its world-number-one spot of welcoming the largest number of foreign passengers for the fifth year in a row.</p>.<p class="bodytext">There was no announcement as yet from authorities in the neighbouring emirate of Abu Dhabi which also has a large airport.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The coronavirus has caused alarm because of its similarity to SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), which killed nearly 650 people across mainland China and Hong Kong in 2002-2003.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Like SARS, it can be passed among people through the respiratory tract.</p>
<p class="title">Dubai Airport, one of the world's biggest aviation hubs, said Thursday it would carry out thermal screening of all passengers arriving from China amid an outbreak of a deadly virus.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Dubai Airports confirms... that all passengers arriving on direct flights from the People's Republic of China must receive thermal screening at the gate upon arrival," a statement said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">China has locked down two major cities to fight the spread of the coronavirus that has already claimed 17 lives and spread to a number of other countries.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dubai's government said on Thursday that some 989,000 Chinese tourists visited the glitzy emirate last year and that the number was expected to cross the one-million mark in 2020. Some 3.6 million Chinese transited through the airport in 2019.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The screening will be conducted on secured, closed gates at the airport by Dubai Health Authority and its Airport Medical Centre team," the statement said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Dubai International Airport in 2018 served 89.15 million passengers, retaining its world-number-one spot of welcoming the largest number of foreign passengers for the fifth year in a row.</p>.<p class="bodytext">There was no announcement as yet from authorities in the neighbouring emirate of Abu Dhabi which also has a large airport.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The coronavirus has caused alarm because of its similarity to SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), which killed nearly 650 people across mainland China and Hong Kong in 2002-2003.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Like SARS, it can be passed among people through the respiratory tract.</p>