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Lots of major developments overnight the Trump administration of this Congress for two and 1/2 $1,000,000,000 to help fight the outbreak.

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This comes at the CDC issues, its highest travel warning to South Korea and the number of cases of growing there and in Italy in Iran and now concerns growing at a hotel in Spain where a case was just confirmed.

There are now more than 80,000 cases worldwide, and the outbreak is also sparking fears on Wall Street, the Dow plunging more than 1000 points on Monday.

We're gonna have more on that in a moment.

But first James Longman joins us from Milan.

Yeah, good morning, Robin Milan is much quieter than usual, but as Italy does what it can to control this outbreak, we're seeing the dangerous potential for the spread infection breaking out from here to both Spain on Dhe Croatia this morning, the urgent race to stop the global spread of Corona virus and the potential for contamination now clear, and an Italian doctor has now tested positive in a Spanish hotel, forcing Warner 1000 guests to get tested.

He visited the hospital yesterday with fever and covert 19 symptoms, and he's now in isolation.

All guests are being told to stay in their rooms until results are back.

And in Croatia, the first confirmed case a man also recently in the Milan region of Italy, the patient described as young and his symptoms mild in It'll eat the number of reported cases at over 200 increased that world health officials called deeply concerning a number of countries now restricting travel to or from the Italian red zone and Kuwait the first to stop flights to the country.

50,000 residents across 12 towns are under lock down as the death toll rises to at least seven.

The normally bustling streets of Milan, much quieter than usual.

Dana Rogers from Wisconsin runs a business here.

My family's worried because you watch the news and you see the supermarkets and you hear about cities being quarantined.

So my mom yesterday was like, I'm really worried.

The number of cases also a warring levels in South Korea overnight authorities raiding the headquarters of this church in Gretchen, where the first covert 19 case was reported.

Health officials trying to test its more than 200,000 members of the World Health Organization struggles to figure out exactly how the virus is transmitted.

Health officials say it could turn into a global pandemic.

The CDC issuing its highest travel warning, telling Americans to avoid all nonessential travel in the U.

Theo effects of the virus felt far and wide from Wall Street to Hollywood, where Paramount Pictures announced Monday it was stopping its production of Tom Cruise's Mission.

Out of an abundance of caution for the safety and well being of our cast and crew, and scarily when housing officials fall ill, the Iranian deputy health minister has been picked it on television, clearly suffering from Corona virus.

All right, thank you, Jane, that we're now doing Bar chief medical correspondent Dr Jennifer asked in.

And Doc, we see these cases popping up in many of the country now.

So what does that say or tell us about the Corona buyers?

Well, I think the first thing Michael is that we don't know if all of these other cases is the Corona virus or covert 19 behaving differently, being more easily transmitted from person to person or whether they're reporting capacity is different and better than we saw in the past month and 1/2 almost two months when you talk about the numbers, I want to emphasize this.

It's not the case number and the death number that really is important here.

We have to look at how many are exposed, how many are infected, how many of those infected actually developed symptoms, How many of those people are then tested and test positive?

Then we can calculate a severity rate and a fatality rate.

And right now, Michael, all of those numbers have been elusive.

Pandemic is how likely is that to happen?

It is the world prepared for a virus to spread like Well, the second part is the key question.

In terms of the word choice and the language, it's more important to focus on the response both here and in other parts of the world, but very interesting.

In October, Johns Hopkins University did a global pandemic preparedness drill.

They found that no country is fully prepared to deal with an epidemic or pandemic on Lee, 19% of the country's they evaluated got top marks for detection.

77% of countries couldn't even collect or report data in real time.

So what happens in other parts of the world affects us.

 I thank you for giving it to a straight appreciate it. 

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