Deputy foreign minister says China has shared its treatment plan with 'many countries'. FMTNews Virus
ROME: Almost 300 million students worldwide faced weeks at home with Italy and India the latest to shut schools over the deadly new coronavirus, as the IMF urged an all-out global offensive against the epidemic.
Most deaths and infections are in China, where the virus first emerged late last year, prompting the country to quarantine entire cities, temporarily shut factories and close schools indefinitely.Several countries have implemented extraordinary measures, with Unesco saying on Wednesday that school closures in more than a dozen countries have affected 290.5 million children.
In Japan, nearly all schools are closed after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for classes to be cancelled until early April. Japan announced on Thursday that a state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping this spring had been postponed because containing the epidemic was “the biggest challenge” for the two countries.
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