UK draws up ‘feed the nation’ contingency plans as Australia considers banning mass gatherings and Italy records 52 deaths. Follow live news
- Italy’s coronavirus death toll rises to 52
- Six dead in Washington state as new cases reported across US
- EU raises risk level of coronavirus infection as global deaths pass 3,000
- Coronavirus: today’s developments at a glance
The WHO boss, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has warned that the world has “never seen a respiratory pathogen that is capable of community transmission, but which can be contained with the right measures”. He said containment must be the top priority for all countries and that there is “no one-size fits all approach”.
Knowing & understanding an epidemic is the first step to defeating it.
We are in unchartered territory with #COVID19. We have never before seen a respiratory pathogen that is capable of community transmission, but which can also be contained with the right measures.
First up let’s have a look at what’s happening on the markets. Yesterday there were big falls on fears of the virus spread, including in. Australia, which plunged more than 2.5% when it opened yesterday. But with widespread predictions the Australian central bank, the Reserve Bank, will cut interest rates today, the market was up almost 1.6% at about 10.40am.
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