China announced a partial lockdown in the southern city of Shantou on Sunday, restricting the entry of cars and suspending public transport in a bid to control the spread of a deadly virus. People arriving at the train stations will be screened and "urged to return", said authorities in the city of 5.6 million people, which is a 1,100-kilometre (680-mile) drive south of Wuhan, the epicentre of the epidemic. ewx-rox/lth/qan