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The coronavirus is causing travel demand to slump across the whole Asia-Pacific region, according to data released by travel analytics firm ForwardKeys on Thursday, with the region seeing a 10.5% slowdown in outbound travel bookings for March and April, excluding trips to and from China and Hong Kong. As of Feb. 9, the setback looks likely to be most marked in northeast Asia, where outbound bookings for March and April are 17.1% behind where they were at the same time last year.

Read CNBC’s coverage from CNBC’s Asia-Pacific team overnight here: China confirms 15,152 new cases, 254 additional deaths. All times above are in Eastern time.

Reuters and CNBC’s Lora Kolodny, Christina Cheddar Berk, Lauren Feiner, Kevin Stankiewicz, Fred Imbert, Nate Rattner, Patti Domm, Leslie Josephs, Amelia Lucas, Matthew J. Belvedere, Lauren Thomas, Jessica Bursztynsky, Holly Ellyatt, Weizhen Tan and Christine Wang contributed to this article.