Updated.
March 14, 2020 08: 51:57
The World Health Organisation says Europe has now become the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, United States President Donald Trump has actually stated a nationwide emergency situation and the Canadian Parliament has actually closed down.
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Here are a few of the big moments today:
- The WHO declares Europe the brand-new epicentre
- Trump declares national emergency situation
- Iran to uses security forces to empty city streets
- Spain declares state of emergency situation
- Canada shuts down Parliament as PM in quarantine
- Queen to delay public engagements
Europe is the new ‘epicentre’
The World Health Organisation says Europe had become the epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic.
It comes as deaths from the pandemic in Italy top 1,200 and Spain– the worst-affected European nation after Italy– declaring a state of emergency situation.
” Europe has now end up being the epicentre of the pandemic with more reported cases and deaths than the rest of world combined apart from China,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said from Geneva in Switzerland.
Italy has reported over 15,000 cases of Covid-19, with France recording more than 2,800, Germany 2,300 and almost 800 in the UK.
More than 132,000 cases of the infection have actually been reported in 123 countries because it emerged in December in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, Dr Ghebreyesus told a virtual press conference.
Mr Tedros announced that the WHO was introducing a coronavirus solidarity action plan.
This would enable people and organisations to contribute to help fund masks, gloves, gowns and goggles for health employees, in addition to diagnostic sets and financial investment in research and development, consisting of for vaccines.
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