League is the latest coronavirus casualty all games are off until april at the earliest. The us president has declared a National Emergency over the coronavirus pandemic and says likely he will soon likely be tested after possibly being exposed announcement for his a 50000000000. 00 to address this growing crisis that he has actually downplayed hours earlier the World Health Organization said the epicenter had moved from china to europe or italy has the highest number of infections and its spain a sickly are in an emergency as other e. U. Countries close their borders and in 2 hours from now u. S. Travel ban from most of europe will come into effect lets begin our coverage with alan fischer who is in washington d. C. So allan donald trump a spent weeks trying to say that this isnt that big of a deal hes used the term hoax hes tweeted a quick turnaround how effective might this be to really get things done. Well with more than 40 deaths with more than 2000 cases they cleared donald trum
A 30 day banned by the u. S. And old flights from europe excluding the u. K. And ireland has just come into effect theyve been reports of long queues at some european airports as people try to beat the deadline President Trump announced the ban on wednesday in a bid to combat the spread of coronavirus he says the e. U. Has been too slow to react to the outbreak and blame travelers from europe for infections in the u. S. Lets go live to rob reynolds hes in los angeles for us now rob so youre there at one of the busiest airports in the u. S. Tell us whats been happening. There and im at the Los Angeles International Airport International terminal of the tom bradley terminal things are fairly busy right now despite the ban having gone into effect just moments ago many of the people that you can see behind me inside the doors of the terminal are lining up for ticket counters at korean air thats not one of the countries yet that has been affected so a lot of people seem to be. For whatever
Volatility is gripping the worlds major stock markets as the coronavirus pandemic censure values plummeting tokyos nikkei index closed on friday down 6 percent thats after it plunged by more than 10 percent on opening along with markets in thailand and india now it follows wall streets biggest drop since the black monday crash of 1987 theres another concern in the u. S. To a delay in testing for the virus a Top Health Official says the Current Situation is failing but that more testing kits will be made available in the coming week in europe schools across much of the continent have been closed for towns and spain now going into lockdown and the country is rolling out economic Protection Measures lets take a look at the job. Hopkins university tracker for the overall global picture there are now more than 128000 infections worldwide 4700 deaths and 68000 people have recovered from the corona virus live now to seoul and our correspondent rob mcbride so rob lets talk about the markets th
Museums and galleries. On other sports too . And a recovery in the global yes, markets, after a torrid week that on other sports too . Cancellations, postponement saw the biggest declines in a generation. Sport but British Airways warns yes, cancellations, postponements in sport have been snowballing. The staff of job losses, premier league, the efl, the saying the Company Faces a crisis of global proportions scottish premiership, all wales like no other. Matches a face put bowman in football, but the first golf major coming up on afternoon live, of the year, the masters, has been all the sport with jane. Postponed. One of the biggest events and the impact of coronavirus being of the golfing calendar and it comes after the pga tour announced that felt widely. Football by no means the only sport all events will be postponed until affected by coronavirus englands cricket tour of sri lanka april. It has now been extended to cancelled, formula one delayed until may, and golfs pga tour incl
Which are making their way into Media Coverage and in sport the English Premier League is suspended and may not be finished coronavirus. None of the star will see a meeting of Club Officials in london decided to call off all games incident least april before. Its just gone 1500 hours g. M. T. Which is 4 pm in madrid the developing news out of there is that spain has just declared a state of emergency over the coronavirus pandemic the Prime Minister says hell be mobilizing the military to contain new cases and that the number could surpass 10000 as early as next week also in europe ukraine barring all foreigners from entering the country as i mentioned as well the e. U. Setting up a 41000000000. 00 fund to help european economies we have correspondents all. All over the world with the latest updates we will start though with this which youre very familiar with the Johns Hopkins university virus tracker from the United States the headline number is these numbers have just been updated is