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The railways of Russia and Finland are suspending rail services between the countries starting Wednesday due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, Russian Railways said.

On Monday, the Russian cabinet decided to close the border with Belarus for personal travel amid the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said.

Russia has registered 114 cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19), according to the latest data provided by Johns Hopkins University.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on 11 March declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus a pandemic. Nearly 200,000 people in over 150 countries have been infected, most have recovered, but nearly 8,000 people have died.