Coronavirus: Pakistani athletes stuck in China due to 'flight issues'.

Pakistani athletes in China have to stay a little longer as airlines have stopped operations due to coronavirus outbreak in the country.

'They will have to stay for a few more days as there is no flight operation from Nanjing to Islamabad during the next few days,' a senior official of the Athletics Federation of Pakistan told the publication.

'I am in constant contact with the travel agent and probably the flights will reopen their operations by February 4 and our athletes will return by the first available flight,' the official said.

Airlines have suspended services to China while, the World Health Organization, which initially downplayed the severity of a disease that has now killed 170 nationwide, warned all governments to be "on alert" as it weighed whether to declare a global health emergency.

National athletes including Arshad Nadeem, Olympian Mehboob Ali, Mohammad Naeem, Uzair-ur-Rehman and Samiullah are in Nanjing for training purposes.

'They had to undergo training there until the end of next month but are returning due to outbreak of coronavirus in China,' the official told the newspaper.

The training tour had...