Live updates on the coronavirus pandemic
Live updates on the coronavirus pandemic
E.U. leaders condemned the ban. The actor Tom Hanks and his wife tested positive for the virus. Italy is under lockdown and the N.B.A. suspended its season.
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China said it had passed the peak of its outbreak.
Here’s what you need to know:
President Trump says restricting travel from Europe is necessary.
This is a global pandemic, the W.H.O. says.
Tom Hanks says he and his wife have the coronavirus.
The N.B.A. suspends its season after a player tests positive for the coronavirus.
Trump’s European travel ban shakes global stock markets.
Europe struggles to make sense of U.S. travel ban as more nations add restrictions.
On both sides of the Atlantic on Thursday, the consequences of President Trump’s decision to ban most travel from Europe began to be felt economically, politically and socially.
The European Commission, the governing body of the European Union, issued a scathing statement condemning the move.
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The coronavirus is a global crisis, not limited to any continent and it requires cooperation rather than unilateral action,” it said. “The European Union disapproves of the fact that the U.S. decision to impose a travel ban was taken unilaterally and without consultation.”
The restrictions apply only to the 26 countries within the bloc’s Shengen free-travel zone and did not appear tied to the severity of outbreaks in individual countries. Britain and Ireland were not included in the ban.
Tens of thousands of Americans in Europe scrambled to figure out what they needed to do before the 30-day travel ban goes into effect on Friday, many unclear on the scope of the ban and worried that their flights home would be canceled. And airlines, hotels and scores of other industries — many of which had already been hurting from restrictions put in place to slow the spread of the virus — braced for even steeper declines.
Across the Continent, the news was greeted with confusion, anger and skepticism even as many European nations moved to tighten their own restrictions on the movement of people both within their borders and from outside.
Italy already on lockdown, clamped down even more and on Thursday morning as virtually the only public places still open to its 60 million citizens were supermarkets and medical facilities.
Within the European Union — where the free movement of people among members states has long been considered one of the crowning achievements of the post-World War II order — the Czech Republic on Thursday joined other nations in announcing new border checkpoints.
Outside Europe, the fight against the virus also gained intensity, with India joining the growing list of countries imposing drastic travel limits.
If the virus had seemed a distant threat to many Americans, news that the actor Tom Hanks and his wife had tested positive seemed to shake that notion. And the steady drumbeat of bad news from Wall Street only heightened anxiety.
One after another, nations on Wednesday announced plans to spend tens of billions to fight the virus and the economic fallout it is causing. But the moves did little to ease investors’ concerns, with both Asian and European markets trading sharply lower on Thursday.
Live updates on the coronavirus pandemic
E.U. leaders condemned the ban. The actor Tom Hanks and his wife tested positive for the virus. Italy is under lockdown and the N.B.A. suspended its season.
RIGHT NOW
China said it had passed the peak of its outbreak.
Here’s what you need to know:
President Trump says restricting travel from Europe is necessary.
This is a global pandemic, the W.H.O. says.
Tom Hanks says he and his wife have the coronavirus.
The N.B.A. suspends its season after a player tests positive for the coronavirus.
Trump’s European travel ban shakes global stock markets.
Europe struggles to make sense of U.S. travel ban as more nations add restrictions.
On both sides of the Atlantic on Thursday, the consequences of President Trump’s decision to ban most travel from Europe began to be felt economically, politically and socially.
The European Commission, the governing body of the European Union, issued a scathing statement condemning the move.
Sign Up For the Morning Briefing Newsletter
The coronavirus is a global crisis, not limited to any continent and it requires cooperation rather than unilateral action,” it said. “The European Union disapproves of the fact that the U.S. decision to impose a travel ban was taken unilaterally and without consultation.”
The restrictions apply only to the 26 countries within the bloc’s Shengen free-travel zone and did not appear tied to the severity of outbreaks in individual countries. Britain and Ireland were not included in the ban.
Tens of thousands of Americans in Europe scrambled to figure out what they needed to do before the 30-day travel ban goes into effect on Friday, many unclear on the scope of the ban and worried that their flights home would be canceled. And airlines, hotels and scores of other industries — many of which had already been hurting from restrictions put in place to slow the spread of the virus — braced for even steeper declines.
Across the Continent, the news was greeted with confusion, anger and skepticism even as many European nations moved to tighten their own restrictions on the movement of people both within their borders and from outside.
Italy already on lockdown, clamped down even more and on Thursday morning as virtually the only public places still open to its 60 million citizens were supermarkets and medical facilities.
Within the European Union — where the free movement of people among members states has long been considered one of the crowning achievements of the post-World War II order — the Czech Republic on Thursday joined other nations in announcing new border checkpoints.
Outside Europe, the fight against the virus also gained intensity, with India joining the growing list of countries imposing drastic travel limits.
If the virus had seemed a distant threat to many Americans, news that the actor Tom Hanks and his wife had tested positive seemed to shake that notion. And the steady drumbeat of bad news from Wall Street only heightened anxiety.
One after another, nations on Wednesday announced plans to spend tens of billions to fight the virus and the economic fallout it is causing. But the moves did little to ease investors’ concerns, with both Asian and European markets trading sharply lower on Thursday.
Congress is set to vote on a sweeping aid package for people financially affected by the coronavirus.
Delays in testing in America have made it difficult to get a full sense of scale of the outbreak there. But states are increasingly taking matters into their own hands, declaring states of emergency, canceling school and university classes, limiting the size of gatherings and ordering thousands of people with potential exposure to the virus into isolation.
While the World Health Organization has declared the global spread of the virus a pandemic, its leaders urged nations not to give up on containment. Uncontrolled spread of the virus, they warned, could overwhelm health care systems even in the wealthiest societies, presenting uncomfortable choices about who to treat first.
Those dangers were being driven home by the unfolding crisis in Italy, which has reported over 12,000
cases and 827 deaths.
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