Japan and South Korea tighten borders as US faces up to 200,000 Covid-19 deaths

Governments ban entry to foreigners and announce quarantine measures as Donald Trump says keeping US deaths to 100,000 would be 'very good'

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Japan and South Korea are poised to tighten restrictions on overseas visitors in renewed efforts to prevent "imported" cases of the coronavirus, as American authorities warned that the US could face 200,000 deaths.

Japan will expand its entry ban to include people travelling from the US, China, South Korea and most of Europe, local media reported on Monday. The measure will apply to foreign nationals who have been to any of the listed regions within 14 days of arriving in Japan.