Italy has 10,000 infections and has seen deaths rise by a third to 631. FMTNews Italy
Red Cross personnel prepare for the transport of a coronavirus patient in Rome.
Countries including Poland and Ukraine announced school closures despite no significant outbreaks being reported. Belgium and Panama are the most recent countries to announce their first confirmed deaths from the virus, while Spain announced that the number of cases has topped 2,000 with 47 deaths.Italy’s lockdown, unprecedented in western Europe, stops people from moving around or leaving the country unless they have a valid medical, family or work reason.
And the United States saw the first signs of an emergency footing with the New York city government forming a containment zone around a suburb at the centre of an outbreak. The Bank of England slashed its main interest rate to 0.25%, following a similar move by the US Federal Reserve last week, in a move is intended to make borrowing cheaper to boost spending and economic activity.
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