CORONAVIRUS Italian police have sequestered hundreds of masks and disinfectants sold online at increased prices in a warehouse in Milan, Wednesday, March 4, in the midst of a coronavirus outbreak in Italy.
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READ MORE: Saudi Arabia banned citizens from performing the Muslim pilgrimage in Mecca, Italy closed schools nationwide and Iran canceled Friday prayers for a second week as nations scrambled Wednesday to control the coronavirus outbreak.
From religion to sports, countries were taking drastic and increasingly visible measures to curb the new coronavirus that first emerged in China and was spreading quickly through Europe, the Mideast and the Americas.
In the United States, frustration mounted over U.S. officials' delays and missteps in testing people for the virus.
Deaths spiked in Iran and Italy which, along with South Korea, account for 80% of the new virus cases outside China, according to the World Health Organization. In all, more than 94,000 people have contracted the virus worldwide, with more than 3,200 deaths.
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