( Reuters) – Countries worldwide on Saturday continued to close borders, enforce stringent entry and quarantine requirements and restrict large events in efforts to contain the spread of the brand-new coronavirus.
Apple Inc ( AAPL.O) said it will close all its stores worldwide, outdoors Greater China, till March27 Apple resumed all 42 of its branded shops in China on Friday as the spread of the infection on mainland China slowed dramatically.
Nations have actually shuttered museums, tourist destinations and sporting occasions to lessen the danger of coronavirus transmission, with more than 138,000 people worldwide contaminated and more than 5,000 dead.
Colombia said it will close its borders with Venezuela and stop visitors who have actually remained in Europe or Asia, while a U.S. restriction on entry for many people from continental Europe was because of begin midnight Friday.
The World Health Company (WHO) says Europe has actually become the pandemic’s current epicenter after reporting more cases and deaths than the rest of world combined, apart from China where the coronavirus came from last December.
Saudi Arabia will suspend all worldwide flights for 2 weeks, beginning Sunday, state news agency MEDICAL SPA stated, Taiwan will need travelers from mainland Europe, Britain and Ireland to self-isolate for 14 days, while New Zealand executed a comparable measure for all those getting in the nation.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern also called on cruise ships, a significant source of infections in some nations, not to come to New Zealand till June30
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