Coronavirus Outbreak: Here are the Latest News and Updates
In response to this rising emergency, global travel disturbance on Tuesday intensified, with South Korea reaching 1000 cases and Iran announcing a total of 15 deaths.
China and South Korea have announced the new coronavirus outbreaks, raising concerns for both countries about the length of time it takes to return to normal life. Korea verified an additional 144 cases, totalling 977, the majority external to China. Korea's president Moon Jae-in went to visit Daegu City on Tuesday afternoon, in which more than half of the nation's confirmed cases were found.
Meanwhile, the European Parliament has advised workers to remain in Singapore, China and parts of Italy, if they have recently traveled to places where coronavirus spreads rapidly, Polito Europe reported.
In an email on Monday night, workers received a request to monitor their temperatures twice a day and to stay in "self-isolation" for 14 days if they come into contact with someone infected by the virus. It was told employees that they should only come back to work "after their physicians have provided green light."
The outbreak in Italy has given rise to concerns that the virus can spread rapidly across Europe, but there are no formal border restrictions in the European Schengen area without passport.
Prague Airport declared that travelers on airlines from Italy would arrive at special gates moving forward. As nearly as 300 confirmed cases of coronavirus were reported Tuesday by the Italian authorities.
The Czech news site Prague Morning has been told by Roman Pacvoň, the Prague Airport Spokesperson, that the travelers from Italy will be concentrated on one location so their activities at the airport will be significantly limited.
Airport officials have also announced that they would isolate passengers who shows symptoms, with complaints, and perform temperature checks. Some scientific researchers have raised doubts about the effectiveness of such checks, for some infected persons may not show significant symptoms but can still transmit the virus.
Other European nations, including Bulgaria, have allegedly taken similar action. Bulgaria Air, the flag carrier representative of its company, confirmed that all flights to Milan had all been canceled by the end of March.
On Tuesday, Italian officials have confirmed a total of 283 reports of coronavirus, marking a further marked increase. Simultaneously, 219 cases were counted by authorities on Monday.
Seven individuals have now been reported to have died in the region, as infections have been on the rise since late last week and now has the highest number of reported cases outside Asia.
A total of 212 were reported in the Lombardy region. Milan, its capital, is a crucial corporate center and it has hosted a fashion week in February over recent days, raising fears that travelers might already have propagated the virus in other European parts.In Austria and Croatia, at least two of the three reported cases were related to the Lombardy zone, either strongly suspected or confirmed last Tuesday.
The cases in Veneto, Emilia-Romagna, Piedmont, Lazio, Tuscany, Sicily and Bolzano also were reported in Italy on Tuesday. 29 patients are in critical condition, according to officials.
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