Border controls have been tightened in Greece.

On the death toll in Italy has continued to climb.

Are South Korea has warned anyone breaching laws on self isolation will face an even heavier fine, and possibly a year in jail?

Is that Foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Rugman in this Chinese documentary, The city of Wuhan seems almost deserted.

The Corona virus outbreak, which began here, has killed over 2700 people across China in the last couple of months.

The health authorities say.

Some discharge patients have Bean re admitted to hospital after testing positive again.

In Beijing, a taxi firm is installing plastic sheeting to separate drivers from passengers, though the virus may be doubling back on itself, with infected carriers returning to China from other countries, including Iran.

In Iran, the virus has claimed 26 lives, and Friday prayers in the capital and elsewhere have bean canceled.

The Iranians claim just a few 100 of being infected, but the high mortality rate suggests the rial figure could be far higher.

I can't decide between what the Internet says on what state television says.

The Internet says it's very dangerous, but TV says it's nothing serious.

It's just a simple cold year for that.

Iran's vice president in charge of women's affairs is one of four government officials with the virus.

Masoumeh kept.

A guard's case was described as mild, though, when Iran's supreme leader thanked medical staff today, he was perhaps also trying to restore public trust.

Officials meeting in Saudi Arabia have placed a temporary ban on foreign tourists and Muslim pilgrims, including these people stranded at an airport in Indonesia.

The main hard pilgrimage is not until late July, and we don't know if the Saudis would extend their ban until then.

In Naples, the Italian and French leaders discussed the crisis.

Two people have died in France, but in Italy the figure has risen to 17 soldiers, air restricting access to several quarantine northern towns, and this was a remarkably quiet land.

At rush hour, the government ministers are playing down The outbreak on already fragile Italian economy could be pushed into recession, with even the governor of long buddy, announcing that he is self isolating for a fortnight after one of his staff fell ill with the virus.

In South Korea.

Nearly 600 cases are directly linked to this religious sect, which claims it's the biggest victim of the outbreak.

A public petition has called for the secretive church to be disbanded.

Countries across the globe are scrambling to contain the spread of Corona virus as the number of those infected continues to rise and shares across the world continue to tumble.

With investors increasingly convinced that the Corona virus outbreak will severely hit world economic growth short time ago, markets in the U.

S were down again.

Share prices have fallen by around 9% in the last week.

Oil prices have dropped as well, in the expectation that demand will fall sharply as economic activity in China's slumps.

But there was a glimmer of positive news from Starbucks, which had shut nearly half of its stores in China today, said that 85% we're not open.

There were early signs of some recovery down the last few minutes.

Reports say that the first case of Corona virus in Northern Ireland has been confirmed the World Health Organization has warned the fight against infection is reaching a decisive point.

More than 80,000 people have now been infected in 40 countries.

Hear talk of the virus and how Britain should tackle it is featured at a summit of leading health professionals in Windsor.

Ah, health correspondent Victoria McDonald is there Victoria?

Yes, Well, this summit, which wasn't about Corona virus but has the great and the good many of the great and the good from the N H.

S here.

Inevitably, Corona virus has come up, and it's all about preparedness.

Now, the chief medical officer and the health secretary both said today, if the numbers grow ever greater, they will have to look at things like canceling mass gatherings, that sporting events or concerts and also closing offices and schools.

But weighing against that the impact off, for instance, closing schools one GP and here told me today that if that happened, they would lose half their staff so they would have to look a doing e consultations or consultations across Skype.

Yet it turns out, as we found out today, that schools are already shutting down because of fears over this virus.

Burbage primary school in Buxton, Darvish closed for a deep clean.

A precautionary measure, they said, after apparent was God's firmed have covered 19 the new Corona virus disease nearby, a medical center was also closed, the notice says.

A confirmed case of Corona virus.

This was one of two cases today.

One had returned from northern Italy and the Darvish, a patient, is believed to have contracted it in 10 of Reef, where there is an outbreak at a large hotel this afternoon, guests have been quarantined.

There were told they could leave.

But here in the UK, the question of school closures is becoming a vexed one for the government dollar.

Each prep in south London also temporarily closed its doors today, and in a letter to parents, the head said, N hs 111 has been inundated with calls since the half term break, and the delay our families have had on accessing medical help has influenced our decision.

There are, at least, um, I think at the last count 13 schools that have decided to close down.

You have consistently said that they don't need to do this, but does this not suggest that they are not trusting your advice.

No.

We've said that there does not need to be a mass closure off schools and that the individual decision is, of course, for the head of that school.

They are closing schools in Japan on Monday until early April.

The first weeks of March, they said, would be an extremely critical period for preventing virus transmission.

Specialist centers like the Royal Free in London have treated the 15 patients identified with covered 19 so far, and the chief medical officer believes there will be more UK cases if it does not become a global epidemic.

The UK is perfectly capable off containing on getting rid off individual cases leading to onward transmission.

I expect there will be someone transmission in the UK way haven't tied it as far as we can see to date, but that's just a matter of time.

In my view, the N hs has of course been here before, with previous outbreaks, including swine flu in 2009.

Comparing the position we're in now in 2022 the position ruin in 2009 with swine flu principles are planning for a situation like this are very similar so you you're thinking about how do you assess the scale of the issue?

Would you assess how it's spreading on the actions you might need to take?

I think the difference is a CZ.

We sit here now.

The N hs is in a much more strange position overall than it was in 2009 where we know that we're short of staff.

We know that people are already struggling in the emergency department in a way that we weren't.

If we look back 10 or 11 years n hs staff that one trust are now being asked to shave their beards, so masks conf it more securely.

The goatee, French Fork and Van Dyke are out clean shaven is in.

But the very clear message the front line of the fight against the spread of the virus is wash your hands user to shoe and discard.