Updated: EU urges border health checks as virus case count mounts
Friday, 13 March 2020, 11:48
Last update: about 7 years ago
Associated Press
European Union interior ministers on Friday were trying to coordinate their response to the novel coronavirus as cases spread throughout the 27-nation bloc and countries took individual measures to...
Impact of pandemic stretches from schools to world's leaders
Friday, 13 March 2020, 07:51
Last update: about 7 years ago
Associated Press
Schools shut down across much of Europe. Gatherings were canceled or banned from California to Germany. And the coronavirus reached directly into the world’s centers of power Thursday, with...
Where next for F1? Australia race cancelled, Bahrain in doubt
Friday, 13 March 2020, 07:39
Last update: about 7 years ago
Associated Press
The curtain-raiser has been canceled. The second and third events are in doubt and the fourth has already been postponed. The Formula One series — the ”big circus" as six-time world...
Champions League games postponed as virus hits world football
Thursday, 12 March 2020, 19:07
Last update: about 7 years ago
The deepening virus outbreak prompted the cancellation of Champions League soccer for the first time Thursday, with the high-profile match between Manchester City and Real Madrid one of two to be...
AP source: UEFA to decide if it will postpone Euros a year
Thursday, 12 March 2020, 17:51
Last update: about 7 years ago
Associated Press
UEFA is nearing a decision to postpone the European Championship by a year to 2021 as the continent grapples with the outbreak of the coronavirus, a person with knowledge of the situation told The...
Most Coronavirus patients recover; but anxiety, fear loom
Thursday, 12 March 2020, 09:30
Last update: about 7 years ago
Associated Press
Amid all the fears, quarantines and stockpiling of food, it has been easy to ignore the fact that more than 60,000 people have recovered from the coronavirus spreading around the globe. The...
Isolation increases as leaders warn viral pandemic will worsen
Thursday, 12 March 2020, 09:28
Last update: about 7 years ago
Associated Press
People around the world became increasingly closed off from one another Thursday as sweeping travel bans accelerated, walling regions apart as a viral pandemic unfolds and financial markets...
In battle against virus, Trump restricts travel from Europe
Thursday, 12 March 2020, 08:08
Last update: about 7 years ago
Associated Press
Taking dramatic action, President Donald Trump sharply restricted passenger travel from 26 European nations to the U.S. and moved to ease the economic cost of a viral pandemic that is roiling...