SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)

My girlfriend is freaking out. She works for a travel company. This is going to hurt.
 
Freedom of movement between the EU and the UK is still in force.

If a Spaniard or an Italian wanted to go to the US, they could do so via the UK.
 
This might be a stupid question but does this include freight and parcels?

I have a parcel I'm literally about to mail to the USA.
 
Freedom of movement between the EU and the UK is still in force.

If a Spaniard or an Italian wanted to go to the US, they could do so via the UK.
Also seems to me its more likely I'll get stopped by EU border protection going from the US-UK-EU then I am likely to be stopped going from the EU-UK-US. The irony.
 
What happens to food production if half of the world shuts down for weeks on end?
 
Still no confirmed cases in Portugal, but it should be a matter of hours now.

Luís Sepulveda, a famous Chilean writer, has it and spent the entire last week in Portugal, in public events all week. Hotels, restaurants, hundreds of autographs... Likely caught it in Italy.

Posted this nearly two weeks ago, this man is now in a coma.
 
So CNN are saying the travel ban doesn’t apply to US permanent residents.
 
At European games tonight players tapping elbows at the start then kissing each other when they score while thousands watch on coughing and and hugging. Makes sense.
 
If you want to show someone proof that social distancing works, here's a graph from 1918 comparing the death tolls in St. Louis and Philadelphia.
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