Oil futures are set for a sixth day of losses as the death toll from a virus in China rose, but the heavy sell-off of recent sessions was curbed by output outages in Libya and OPEC comments designed to calm demand fears.

Brent crude LCOc1 was down 51 cents at $58.81 a barrel at 09:25 GMT, hitting a three-month low of $58.50 yesterday.

U.S. West Texas Intermediate CLc1 was down 32 cents at $52.82 a barrel, after slipping to its lowest since early October in the previous session at $52.13.

The United States and other countries warned against travelling to China as the coronavirus death toll rose to more than 100 and after the virus was detected in more than a dozen countries outside China.