Events and services impacted by Coronavirus

Australia: self-quarantine for two weeks

Australia's prime minister has ordered a 14-day self-isolation for anyone arriving in the country to try to halt the spread of the coronavirus.

BBC

Australia: Grand Prix cancelled

The Australian Grand Prix has been called off after teams and drivers forced the hand of Formula 1's bosses.

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Berlin and Cologne curtailing clubs and other entertainment venues

BERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin and Cologne are to close all bars, clubs, cinemas, theaters and concert halls with immediate effect as Germany ramps up its efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

Reuters

German schools shuttering

BERLIN, March 13 (Reuters) - Schools and kindergartens will be shut in most German states until after the Easter holiday in April, a measure designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

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Switzerland "closing down"

Bern (dts Nachrichtenagentur) - Die Schweizer Regierung hat aufgrund der Ausbreitung des neuartigen Coronavirus den Notstand ausgerufen. Ab Mitternacht müssten alle Geschäfte, Restaurants, Bars sowie Unterhaltungs- und Freizeitbetriebe wie Museen, Bibliotheken, Kinos, Konzert- und Theaterhäuser, Sportzentren, Schwimmbäder und Skigebiete bis zum 19. April geschlossen werden, teilte die Regierung am Montagnachmittag in Bern mit. Ausgenommen seien unter anderem Lebensmittelläden und Gesundheitseinrichtungen.

Switzerland state of emergency

Translation: "The Swiss government, because of the spread of the novel Coronavirus, had declared a state of emergency. From midnight all businesses, restaurants, bars, as well as social- and leisure time activities such as museums, libraries, cinemas, concert and theater halls, sports centers, swimming pools, and ski areas will be closed until 19 April, per the Bern government's statement Monday afternoon. Exceptions to this requirement include food stores and health-related businesses."

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Cisco Live US moved to a virtual event only..Pretty big for those in the IT space.



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I have been trying to make my credit card payment today.

The whole system is down.

I got ahold of them on FB chat and they said to pay it online. The online services are unable to process it.

It is a bad day when the credit card company cant take your money.

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Nancy Pelosi tells house members not to return to Washington on March 23rd as planned. They can stay at home, at a vacation spot, or wherever they are, until she gives the green light.

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originally posted by: carewemust
Nancy Pelosi tells house members not to return to Washington on March 23rd as planned. They can stay at home, at a vacation spot, or wherever they are, until she gives the green light.

thehill.com...

The emergency coronavirus bill still has not gone to the Senate from the House. I sense more games. The White House wants the pork cut out, and Pelosi disagrees.

Pelosi appears to have used this opportunity to sneak in all sorts of lawmaking disconnected from the crisis and rushed the bill so that Republicans who might otherwise object were forced to vote for something they had not read. Sound familiar? Perhaps they had to pass it to find out what's in it...

Gohmert noted a few provisions that would actually hurt workers. Under the bill, workers would get "up to 10 weeks of wages at the bill's mandated 2/3’s rate as 'public health emergency leave' instead of receiving workers compensation because workers comp is non-taxable though employer paid leave is taxable. That provision hurts the worker."

So we're fighting over taxes still. One side wants the relief to be untaxed, while the other wants it to be taxable income. I'll leave it up to you to decide which is better for workers on the ground receiving the relief.

"It doesn't go far enough and it doesn't go fast enough," Cotton said. "Most of the measures in this bill are something that the senators will support, I believe. ... But we worry that the bill setting up a new and complicated system relying on businesses giving paid sick leave and then getting a refundable tax credit that won't move quickly enough and could put pressure on those businesses to lay workers off."

So when people want to know why small businesses aren't getting their relief, it's because Pelosi is playing games with the bill.

So, let's see:

My water aerobics class has been cancelled as the Community Center is closed until May.

All KC area school districts are closed at least until April 3. Our district is supposed to be communicating their home support plans tomorrow for continuance of learning, and we plan to procure some extra curriculum books in addition to the packets sent home already with him on Thursday and Friday of this past week. This week is Spring Break.

I just got emailed from work. The CEO finally acted, and all non-essentials (like myself) are now working remotely. I can start logging in from here to work as of tomorrow which I will do.

I am guessing, although we haven't confirmed, that kiddo's martial arts is also cancelled or the class structure has been stretched out, but cancelled is far more likely.

So it appears we will have to organize our work, kiddo's school and practice, and everything else from home for the next couple of weeks at least. We knew this was coming, but it's a relief to finally have it come down for sure.

... oh, and I'm almost 100% sure we're not having kiddo's tournament in early April.

short answer if it's on the Island of Luzon in the Philippines, it's canceled. all events, parades, fiestas, concerts, sports, canceled. all schools, closed. all malls, beaches parks etc, closed. most jobs, canceled. all forms of public transit, shut down. restaurants, closed, except for delivery (and possibly pickup but not clear as conflicting reports on that aspect). religious services, recommended be canceled. going out for a nice stroll, canceled. even many local TV shows are canceled for new episodes. and just for fun an 8pm-5am curfew on top of that.

pretty much all we will be able to do after midnight tonight is get annoyed with those you live with (seriously a month of being cooped up together is going to be interesting, especially for the poor many of which live in homes too small to park a car in, although i'm sure they will socialize at the community toilet). surf the net, watch whatever is on TV, play video games, or read. and of course there is likely to be a big baby boom in about 9 months.

Bulgarian ski resort

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria put its ski resort of Bansko under a two-week lockdown after three people there tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday, Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev said.

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U.N. resettlement suspended

TORONTO (Reuters) - The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration will temporarily suspend refugee resettlement departures because of new air travel and border restrictions, a UNHCR spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

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No praying at Saudi mosques

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that mosques would no longer accept worshippers for the customary five daily prayers and the weekly Friday prayer, in exceptional measures intended to help limit the spread of the coronavirus.

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Taj Mahal closed

MUMBAI/KARACHI (Reuters) - India closed the Taj Mahal, its principal tourist site, and the financial hub of Mumbai ordered offices providing non-essential services to keep half their staff at home in increased measures to curb the coronavirus in South Asia.

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Finnish borders getting tighter

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland will start heavily restricting traffic over its borders on Thursday in an attempt to contain the coronavirus outbreak, Interior Minister Maria Ohisalo said.

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USA - Canada border to close for nonessential travel

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S.-Canada border will close to nonessential traffic, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted on Wednesday, saying details on the move would be announced later but that it would not affect trade between the two countries.

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British schools

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Wednesday ordered schools to close for millions of children until further notice after criticism that the government was too slow to react to the spread of coronavirus.

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No groups of 10 or more in Greece

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will ban public gatherings of 10 people and more from Thursday in an attempt to prevent the spread of coronavirus, its crisis management minister said.

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Al-Azhar mosque shut in Egypt

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt’s Al-Azhar mosque, one of its oldest and largest mosques, and churches were ordered to shut their doors over coronavirus fears

Al-Azhar, Egypt’s top Sunni Muslim authority, will shut its historic mosque in old Cairo starting from Saturday “for the safety of worshipers, and until the end of the Corona epidemic,” it said in a statement. The mosque will not stop its prayers calls through microphones.

No decision has been made regarding other the country’s hundreds of thousands of other mosques.

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No international flights to / from Pakistan

ISLAMABAD/DHAKA (Reuters) - Pakistan suspended on Saturday all international flights for two weeks to limit the spread of coronavirus, as governments across densely populated South Asia ramped up their efforts to contain the virus.

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Even Conspiracy talks halted.

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