Asia's biggest economies are already feeling the brunt of new coronavirus COVID-19.
Key gauges for manufacturing in Australia and Japan have fallen while early export orders for South Korea show a slump in Chinese demand.
The warning signs come as finance chiefs from the Group of 20 (G20), the world's 20 biggest economies, meet this weekend in Riyadh for the first time since the virus was first detected in humans.
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