Travelers on flights from South Korea to U.S. screened before boarding

Travelers on direct flights to the United States from all South Korean airports are receiving multiple screenings, such as temperature checks, before boarding as part of efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said Monday.The same measure will be taken in airports in Italy within the next 12 hours or so, he said at a press briefing in the late afternoon in Washington.The move came as the United States steps up measures aimed at countries seeing a surge in cases of the pneumonia-causing virus. Over the weekend, the government issued an alert to U.S. c…READ FULL ARTICLE