{"id":51553,"date":"2020-03-04T08:38:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T13:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51553"},"modified":"2020-03-04T08:38:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T13:38:04","slug":"german-minister-declares-outbreak-a-global-pandemic-israel-quarantines-soccer-fans-virus-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51553","title":{"rendered":"German Minister Declares Outbreak &#8220;A Global Pandemic&#8221;; Israel Quarantines Soccer Fans: Virus Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/first-case-coronavirus-detected-eu-headquarters-brussels-live-updates\">German Minister Declares Outbreak &#8220;A Global Pandemic&#8221;; Israel Quarantines Soccer Fans: Virus Updates<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Italian gov&#8217;t denies ANSA report about closing schools &amp; universities<\/li><li>German finance minister declares outbreak &#8220;a global pandemic&#8221;<\/li><li>EU reports first coronavirus case at its headquarters in Brussels<\/li><li>China reported 119 additional coronavirus cases and 38 additional deaths<\/li><li>South Korea reported 809 additional coronavirus cases and 4 additional deaths<\/li><li>Israel quarantines group of soccer fans<\/li><li>&#8220;Official&#8221; Iranian death toll hits 92<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update (0820ET):<\/strong>&nbsp;The Italian education ministry said Wednesday morning that &#8220;no decision has yet been made&#8221; regarding whether to close schools, or not. The decision has apparently been delayed for a few hours, according to RanSquawk. The headline about the school closures took a little bit of the momentum out of markets earlier, but stock futures in the US have rallied back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update (0800ET):\u00a0<\/strong>Italian newswire ANSA reports that the Italian government will move ahead with plans to close all schools and colleges in the country for two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NorbertElekes\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1148447760464646144\/WJbazf0m_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BREAKING: Italy closes all schools and universities nationwide to stop coronavirus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Until now, only schools in Italy&#8217;s virus-plagued northern region had been closed due to the outbreak, even as the death toll from the virus nears 80.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Global Times can&#8217;t help but gloat&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Minister Declares Outbreak &#8220;A Global Pandemic&#8221;; Israel Quarantines Soccer Fans: Virus Updates Summary: Italian gov&#8217;t denies ANSA report about closing schools &amp; universities German finance minister declares outbreak &#8220;a global pandemic&#8221; EU reports first coronavirus case at its headquarters in Brussels China reported 119 additional coronavirus cases and 38 additional deaths South Korea reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[130,359,607,4318],"class_list":["post-51553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-china","tag-germany","tag-pandemic","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51554,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51553\/revisions\/51554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}