WEDNESDAY 4 MARCH 2020More than 90,000 infected as
governments take drastic steps
to control coronavirus
Shoppers are checked on entering a mall in Tehran yesterday (AP)
VINCENT WOOD
More than 90,000 people have been infected with the deadly Covid-19 coronavirus, the chief of the World
Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed as nations turn to increasingly drastic measures to halt the
spread of the virus.
The coronavirus, which has continued its spread into more than 70 countries after emerging in China in
December, has led to the deaths of 3.4 per cent of those confirmed to have contracted it – according to the