Coronavirus live updates: Europe shuts down schools as markets tumble, sporting world in crisis https://ift.tt/38Iuf5T Helen Sullivan New York to ban gatherings over 500 people; Arsenal coach tests positive; Australian Grand Prix cancelled, Italy deaths pass 1,000. Follow the latest news Arsenal head coach Mikel Arteta tests positive for coronavirus Boris Johnson: many more people will lose loved ones to coronavirus Many infections spread by people yet to show symptoms – scientists How do coronavirus containment measures vary across Europe? 12.16am GMT Here is New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio speaking earlier about the decision to declare a state of emergency in the city. Join us at City Hall for updates and announcements on our city’s COVID-19 response. https://t.co/gbnZ4rBiw0 12.14am GMT Princess Cruises, the operator of two ocean liners that were quarantined after they became hotbeds for coronavirus infections, said on Thursday it would suspend voyages of all its 18 ships for two months. The suspension upends an industry already struggling with cancellations following the outbreak, and comes after Finland’s Viking Line temporarily paused operations of its river ships and ocean liners around the world, Reuters reports. “Never ... in the 20 years I have served in this company, have we been tested in ways we have been tested over the past 40 days,” Jan Swartz, president of Princess Cruises, said on the operator’s official YouTube channel, addressing the decision to suspend operations. “This is perhaps the most difficult decision in our history.” Continue reading... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J March 13, 2020 at 02:16AM

New York to ban gatherings over 500 people; Arsenal coach tests positive; Australian Grand Prix cancelled, Italy deaths pass 1,000. Follow the latest news

• Arsenal head coach Mikel Arteta tests positive for coronavirus
• Boris Johnson: many more people will lose loved ones to coronavirus
  
• Many infections spread by people yet to show symptoms – scientists
• How do coronavirus containment measures vary across Europe?

12.16am GMT

Here is New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio speaking earlier about the decision to declare a state of emergency in the city.

Join us at City Hall for updates and announcements on our city’s COVID-19 response. https://t.co/gbnZ4rBiw0

12.14am GMT

Princess Cruises, the operator of two ocean liners that were quarantined after they became hotbeds for coronavirus infections, said on Thursday it would suspend voyages of all its 18 ships for two months.

The suspension upends an industry already struggling with cancellations following the outbreak, and comes after Finland’s Viking Line temporarily paused operations of its river ships and ocean liners around the world, Reuters reports.

“Never ... in the 20 years I have served in this company, have we been tested in ways we have been tested over the past 40 days,” Jan Swartz, president of Princess Cruises, said on the operator’s official YouTube channel, addressing the decision to suspend operations. “This is perhaps the most difficult decision in our history.”

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