Italy Shuts All Schools to Counter Spread of Coronavirus
A woman wearing a protective mask at at street market in Milan. Salman Shehzad Government in Italy has decided that it will shut all educational institutions from Thursday for 10 days as it battles to contain the coronavirus outbreak. The decision comes afther the death toll reached above 100. A total of 107 people have now been killed by the coronavirus in Italy, which has the most serious outbreak in Europe. PM Giuseppe Conte said the health service risked being overwhelmed, media reports. Most of the more than 3,000 cases are in the north but others have been confirmed in 19 of Italy's 20 regions. Globally about 3,200 people have died and more than 90,000 have been infected, the vast majority in China, where the virus emerged late last year. The World Health Organization has so far stopped short of declaring a pandemic - an epidemic spreading across the world through local transmission - but on Wednesday Germany's health minister said the coronavirus now met th...