NSTworldL: “We’re deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction.” coronavirus COVID19 WHO pandemic
The call came as Europe faced a mounting number of cases – including a slew of new countries clocking first deaths – prompting governments to roll out increasingly tough measures to slow the rapid spread of the virus.
Passengers arriving at El Alto international airport wear protective face masks in an attempt to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus, in El Alto, Bolivia. - AFP pic Signs of a widening European crisis emerged Wednesday, with Ireland, Albania, Belgium, Sweden and Bulgaria registering their first deaths, while Italy clocked more than 2,300 new cases in the last 24 hours and infections in Spain jumped by a quarter to more than 2,100.
Factories and other big businesses can remain open as long as they adopt “appropriate security measures to prevent contagion,” Conte said Elsewhere in the region, Kuwait said it was suspending all commercial flights in and out of the country, after it and other Gulf nations had already adopted travel restrictions.
People wearing protective face masks arrive a supermarket on the second day of an unprecedented lockdown across all of the country, imposed to slow the outbreak of coronavirus, in Pioltello, near Milan, Italy. - REUTERS pic
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