Thousands of flights cancelled as demand disappears
Thousands of flights have been canceled worldwide to cope with the slump in demand caused by the coronavirus.
Ryan Air will stop services to and from Italy from Friday 8 April, BA scrapping its routes until 4 April as Italy goes into total lockdown.
Easy Jet has cancelled all of its flights to and from Italy between 10 March to 3 April.
Norwegian Air has said it will cut out 3000 flights in the next three months.
American Airlines cutting 7.5 per cent of its domestic flight in April.
Some airlines had continued to operate practically empty flights to protect their rights to take-off and landing slots under the EU “use it or lose it” rules, they were required to run services on busy routes or forfeit them to other operators.
Ursula Von der Leyen announced that airlines will be allowed to keep their slots even if they are not flying routes, “this is a temporary measure, and this temporary measure helps both our industry but it also helps our environment”.
Korean Air warned the coronavirus outbreak could threaten its survival.
Australia’s Qantas Airline has said it will reduce international flights by 25 per cent. As demand falls from passengers worried about coronavirus.
Virgin Atlantic has confirmed it has been forced to operate some near-empty flights after bookings were knocked by the coronavirus outbreak.
A 53-year-old British woman dies after contracting Covid-19 marking the first death in Bali and the first in Indonesia from Covid-19.
Nadine Dorries, a junior health minister, and Tory MP is in self-isolation at home after becoming the first British politician to test positive for Covid-19. The UK has 463 cases and eight people have died after contracting the virus.
There are over 120, 000 cases of coronavirus worldwide and 4, 296 deaths.
The Chinese capital of Beijing has ordered people arriving in the city from any country to go into 14-day quarantine as China reported an increase in imported coronavirus cases. Authorities in China’s Hubei said on Tuesday they will implement a health code mobile-phone-based monitoring system to start allowing people to travel within the province, as it tries to get life back to normal.
First coronavirus related death reported in Belgium a 90-year-old patient.
Turkey has announced its first case of the new coronavirus.
The death toll in France jumps to 30.
In Italy, the coronavirus outbreak has killed 631 people the death toll jumped by 168 to 631 on Tuesday an increase of 36 per cent and affected more than 10, 000.
The Vatican closes St Peter’s Square, Basilica to tourists.
Qatar coronavirus infection passes 24.
Morocco reports the first coronavirus death an 89-year-old Moroccan woman who entered Morocco from Italy’s Bologna.
Coronavirus kills 54 more people in Iran bringing the death toll to 291 and 8042 cases.
Asia’s biggest hospital group is offering on-demand tests for the new coronavirus in Malaysia and helping Singapore’s authorities to diagnose cases.
Vietnam declares that all 16 of its coronavirus cases had recovered the number of infected patients rose following the reintroduction of the virus on a flight from Britain. Vietnam’s health ministry reported a total of 35 Coronavirus cases.
Japan unveils $4bn in spending to cope with the fallout of the coronavirus outbreak.
The European Commission will set up an EU fund worth €25bn to tackle the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus.
Honduras has deportation flights from Mexico suspended citing coronavirus fears.
Two F1 team members of Haas Formula One team have gone into self-isolate.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Welcome and MasterCard pledged $125m to support the development of treatments for the coronavirus.
Harvard to move to virtual classes amid coronavirus outbreak.