The U.S. is overreacting and spreading fear about the coronavirus outbreak, China's Foreign Ministry said Monday.

"What it has done could only create and spread fear, which is a very bad example," Hua Chunying, a spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry said during an online news briefing.

Chunying specifically called out the U.S. for not providing substantive assistance to China while being the first country to evacuate its consulate in Wuhan, the city where the outbreak was first reported.

She also noted that the U.S.'s recent decision to ban foreign nationals who have traveled to China from entering the country goes beyond recommendations from the World Health Organization.

WHO last week declared the outbreak, which has so far killed at least 362 people and infected over 17,000 more, a public health emergency of international concern. The decision did not come with any restrictions on travel.

When the U.S. announced the ban and other quarantine details on Friday, its health officials called them "preventative steps" and repeated that the public health risk in the U.S. is low.

Chunying also noted the drastic disparity in the death tolls of the coronavirus and the flu virus in the U.S., which is estimated to have killed thousands this season so far.

There are 11 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the U.S. across Washington state, California, Arizona, Illinois and Massachusetts.

The virus has spread to more than 25 countries and territories. The first death outside of mainland China was reported in the Philippines over the weekend.

In mainland China, the outbreak has killed more people than the 2002-2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, epidemic, which killed 349 people.