The coronavirus outbreak
Coronavirus-The World Health Organization on Friday (Feb 28) raised its global risk assessment of the new coronavirus to its highest level after the epidemic spread to Sub-Saharan Africa and financial markets slumped. The virus has thrived around the globe over the past week, developing in every region except Antarctica, stimulating many governments and businesses to undertake to prevent people from traveling or gathering in crowded places. It has killed quite 2,800 people and infected over 84,000 worldwide - the overwhelming majority in China - since it emerged apparently from an animal market within the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late December. But it's its rapid spread to new zones that has authorities concerned…