Global marts tank on Covid-19 fears
Passengers looking out from the Grand Princess cruise ship at Oakland port, California, yesterday. The cruise ship carrying thousands of people who were stranded for days due to a coronavirus outbreak docked yesterday. – AFP pic, March 10, 2020.
GLOBAL financial markets tanked, oil prices crashed and Italy extended strict quarantine measures across the whole country yesterday as the deadly coronavirus disrupted economies and societies across the world. World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned “the threat of a pandemic has become very real” but stressed that “it would be the first pandemic in history that can be controlled”.
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