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Markets continued to plummet today as the US and
UK stock exchanges suffered their worst performance since Black Monday in 2008.
Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta has coronavirus. In a
statement the club said they expected a significant number of people, including
the full first-team squad will have to self-isolate. The Premier League is
holding an emergency meeting tomorrow morning.
President Trump’s handling of the virus outbreak
was criticised by top federal health official Dr Anthony Fauci who described
the US’s lacklustre approach to coronavirus testing “a failing”. Democratic
presidential hopefuls Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders also slammed the president’s
handling of the health crisis.
Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt criticised
the governments decision to delay social distancing measures. In a Channel 4
interview, Hunt said he was “surprised” and “puzzled” by the move.
121 people at Italy’s Juventus F.C. are self
isolating after footballer Daniele Rugani tested positive for the virus.
There is heightened concern at the White House
after a picture emerged of a top Brazilian government aide, who has tested
positive for coronavirus, standing right next to Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago
last weekend.
President Macron addressed the French nation and
announced the closure of all the country’s creches, schools, colleges and
universities as part of “strong measures” to address an expected acceleration
in the number of people with the virus. He described the outbreak as “the most
serious health crisis France had faced in a century”.
Spain will inject €14bn into the economy to help
Spanish businesses survive economic shocks from the outbreak. Two cabinet
ministers have tested positive for coronavirus. The Catalan regional government
has ordered around 70,000 people to stay at home for two weeks from 9pm tonight
after a steep increase in cases of the virus.
Angela Merkel held a press conference where she
appealed to Germans to restrict social contact and announced plans to
restructure the country’s hospitals in order to boost the number of intensive
care beds.
Canada’s most populous province to shut down
schools for two weeks. All public schools in Ontario will be shut from 14 March
to 5 April.
Disturbing satellite images of mass graves in
Iran suggest the scale of the outbreak there is worse than authorities are
admitting.
Schools in Belgium will close from midnight
tomorrow until the Easter Holidays. Belgium’s prime minister Sophie Wilmès made
the announcement. Restaurants and bars have also been ordered to close and only
essential shops such as supermarkets and pharmacies may stay open.
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