Posted on 03/18/2020 7:41:25 PM PDT by BeauBo
German authorities are turning visitors back at the airports amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Angela Merkel has urged Germans to rise to the challenge of a lifetime in helping to curb the outbreak.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the coronavirus pandemic is the greatest challenge in decades.
French police handed out over 4,000 fines on the first day of a nationwide lockdown.
Germany currently has over 12,300 confirmed coronavirus cases, and the virus has so far claimed 28 lives, according to the data compiled by the US-based Johns Hopkins University...
Another 89 people died of the coronavirus in France during the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 264....
Italy declared 475 new deaths from the coronavirus on Wednesday. The unprecedented increase marks the biggest day-to-day jump in any nation, including China, since the outbreak began in late December. The total death toll in Italy is now nearly 3,000...
UK officials say the number of people who died of the coronavirus is now 103, compared to 71 on Wednesday... Israel is stopping anyone from entering the country, unless they are a citizen or have permanent residency. The new regulations will come into effect immediately...
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) will close its floor for trading and switch completely to electronic trading due to health concerns...
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See, yet another reason borders are important.
RACIST!
But Muslims will be welcome with open arms?
I’m gonna bet that Germany doesn’t test a lot of the cadavers expired from pneumonia currently lying in morgues, which is why only 28 deaths. My guess is that’s also the Chinese approach, as they try to coax workers back to work.
you know she is ignoring reality when the Philippines closed the airports and now is in lockdown, did these things before Germany, even though our number of cases were less than 100 at the time.
Case numbers are still low. True, it's hard to get a test done, but since most people here have hospital access, the death rate would be known (and probably higher than the west because there are fewer respirators).
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