 | | | | The death toll from a coronavirus outbreak in China rose to 81 on Monday, as the government extended the Lunar New Year holiday and more big businesses shut down or told staff to work from home in an effort to curb the spread. | | | | | | The number of people infected with the coronavirus has reached 2,835, Chinese state television said on Monday. | | | | | | Britain has offered to help its citizens leave China's Hubei Province where the coronavirus outbreak began. | | | | | | The United Arab Emirates' Minister of Energy said on Monday the oil market should not overreact to the possible impact of an outbreak of coronavirus in China on demand. | | | | | | China will ensure ample supplies to Wuhan's markets and maintain price stability, Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday during a visit to Wuhan, center of a coronavirus outbreak that has killed 80 people in China and infected more than 2,700, CCTV state television reported. | | | | | | The health minister in Thailand, the country with the most confirmed cases outside China of the new coronavirus, called an emergency meeting on Sunday with the transport and tourism ministries amid rising public discontent over the government's handling of the illness. | | | | | | Russian tour operators have stopped selling package holidays to China due to the coronavirus outbreak there and are only bringing Russian tourists home, Dmitry Gorin, vice president of the Association of Russian Tour Operators, said on Monday. | | | | | | The German government does not have any indications that Germans in the Wuhan area are affected by coronavirus, a spokeswoman for the German Foreign Ministry said on Monday. | | | | | | Germany is considering evacuating German citizens from the Chinese region affected by coronavirus, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Monday. | | | | | | The Spanish government is working with China and the European Union to repatriate Spanish nationals from the Wuhan area of China amid concerns over coronavirus, Spain's Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya said on Monday. | | | | | | Chinese corporate giants including Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings Ltd said they have asked staff to work from home for one week after an extended Lunar New Year break ends, seeking to limit the spread of a new flu-like virus. | | | | | |
