Now playing Next United Kingdom UK announces ‘largest giveaway budget since 1992’ to battle COVID-19 The UK’s finance minister RishiSunak says the health service will get whatever resources it needs to tackle the coronavirus. 11/03/2020
Now playing Next Switzerland Coronavirus: What is a pandemic? Clue: It is worse than an epidemic. 11/03/2020
Now playing Next Spain Spain warns elderly to avoid their grandchildren as COVID-19 spreads Nn a country where only 4% of the population work from home, many working parents rely on grandparents for childcare 11/03/2020
Now playing Next World UK is '2 to 3 weeks' behind Italy, says disease control expert "The appropriate timing for the introduction of quarantine measures is what will determine how effective they are. If they are introduced too soon they might not be sustained, if they are introduced too late they might not be effective" - Dr. Michael Tildesley. 11/03/2020
Now playing Next No Comment Coronavirus panic leaves supermarket looking like 'end of the world' Panic buying at supermarkets in central Madrid triggered by the spread of coronavirus led to long queues and empty shelves on Tuesday. 10/03/2020
Now playing Next World News Coronavirus symptoms take five days to appear A new study found that less than 2.5 percent of COVID-19 cases showed symptoms within 2.2 days while 97.5 percent showed symptoms within 11.5 days. 09/03/2020
Now playing Next No Comment Museums closed by the Italian government in anti-virus measures Popular tourist sites in Italy were shut down on Sunday as the Italian government took drastic measures to stop the coronavirus spread. 09/03/2020
Now playing Next World News How do scientists create vaccines for new viruses? Hundreds of scientists around the world have begun to create a COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine, which, according to WHO estimates, could take a year and a half to produce. 09/03/2020
Now playing Next Italy Death toll rises in Italian prisons as inmates riot over COVID-19 rule The riots were triggered by emergency restrictions imposed amid the COVID-19 outbreak. 09/03/2020
Now playing Next World EU pledges €25 billion to offset economic impact of COVID-19 Leaders have pledged to accelerate research into the disease and to support the sectors the hardest hit, such as aviation. 09/03/2020
Now playing Next World News Coronavirus: Spain declares emergency as France shuts restaurants Spain and France announce tough new restrictions to control the COVID-19 outbreak as cases jump in Italy. 09/03/2020
Now playing Next Italy Italy coronavirus shutdown: how the emergency measures work The coronavirus decree announced by PM Giuseppe Conte covers Lombardy and surrounding provinces in northern Italy, imposing major restrictions on around a quarter of the country’s population. 08/03/2020
Now playing Next World News UN declines to declare coronavirus pandemic “Unless we’re convinced it’s uncontrollable, why (would) we call it a pandemic?” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said this week. 07/03/2020
Now playing Next United Kingdom Victims of coronavirus scams lost a huge amount of money in February Scammers conned victims in the UK using phishing emails where they posed as groups associated with the World Health Organization. 06/03/2020
Now playing Next Switzerland World’s poorest may be ‘pushed over edge’ by coronavirus measures Livelihoods and lives may be threatened by lockdowns, quarantines and other measures to control COVID-19, says the UN's human rights commissioner. 06/03/2020
Now playing Next World News Coronavirus: Global markets fall amid pessimism over response measures World shares dropped on Friday after a sharp fall on Wall Street, as doubts over action to counter COVID-19 came to the fore. 06/03/2020
Now playing Next Italy How Italian schools stay operational amid COVID-19 shutdown Schools in Italy are testing remote teaching methods after the country shut schools and universities as part of its response to the coronavirus outbreak 06/03/2020
Now playing Next World News Experts play down likelihood of banknotes spreading coronavirus Most transmission of coronavirus is through person-to-person contact and not from touching objects. 06/03/2020
Now playing Next World News Coronavirus: Italy becomes most affected nation after China As 16 million people have been put in emergency quarantine in Italy, coronavirus affects more and more people across the world. 05/03/2020
Now playing Next France 'My kids exhaust me more than COVID-19,' says doctor under quarantine "I am maybe a little tired because I don't sleep a lot because I have four kids ... they exhaust me more than the virus I think," says a French doctor with COVID-19. 05/03/2020