He's more interested in pumping the S&P than being in any way serious about the outbreak... all about the election.

SK and Italy are similar to China in that they have a main area of concern - Daegu and Lombardy. If they can follow China's 'success' and stop it from spreading too much throughout the rest of the country then that will ease the concern.

To be fair, it depends on the employer. Many small business owners are not fat cats but rather could go to the wall if the virus takes hold. Many small shop owners, restauranteurs etc are going to be under huge pressure. Many simply can't afford to pay staff also.  

99 % of people who get #coronovirus will not die from it says chief medical officer

— norman smith (@BBCNormanS) March 3, 2020

Boris says you need to wash your hands and sing happy birthday twice that will then before the right length of time for washing

835 new cases in Iran. 1 case now in Gibraltar will count as UK.

Now they have allowed the WHO to visit the country for a week, we might get some idea of what is really going on in Iran.

That's probably both his sex routine and his reading routine.

Why are so many hashtags on Twitter misspelt? You'd think the BBC would be able to spell CoronAvirus!

It's fair to say that every year over 1% of the population die.

Whitty "probably" calling a 1% mortality rate. I'm surprised he was prepared to say that at this stage.  

=3.3% 

I wonder do underlying (or not so underlying) health conditions increase the chance of death? 

How Princess Diana of him.

Blond, cheeky smile, would shag anything that gave them a second look... yeah, there's certainly similarities.

Another interesting point is they are expecting cases to really grow in 2 to 3 months time.

Well at least it should give enough time for Leeds to be promoted first.

And for Saint's sake, for Liverpool to win the title.

The wretched Ayatollah sounds like Comical Ali :

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini has insisted on Twitter that the country has dealt with coronavirus with "sincerity and transparency since day one".

The #Coronavirus has affected many countries. Our officials have reported with sincerity and transparency since day one. However, some countries where the outbreak has been more serious have tried to hide it. Of course, we ask God to heal the sick in those countries too.

— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) March 3, 2020

By then we should be into "peak UV", so   it will be interesting to see what happens.

What this year has shown is just how weak the Iranian regime is . 

Very true. There is a pub near me that has a car park on the edge of a cliff. In the past winter it has lost about a quarter of its spaces because of a major landslip. I spoke to the manager earlier and you could see he was worried even scared from what I saw in his eyes about (a) where his customers are going to park and (b) the effects of fewer customers if less people visit because of the virus and smaller car park. The past decade has been good for this brewery but that may be about to end. It's a double whammy for him. 

Yes 3 months from now too peak and then another 3 months to go down again. You'd expect another peak in winter as well. Disruption for over a year at least probably.  It really will be fascinating how this Covid19 crisis evolves so many unknowns at the moment.

A genuine Tweet on the Iranian situation:

70 الف مصاب و 1235 متوفي بسبب فايروس #كورونا في إيران.

■امنع واغلق كل شيء من وإلى إيران..

●هنا مدينة قم! يظهر فيها تكدساً لجثث ضحايا كورونا في أحد المغاسل،بانتظار دفنها، بعد تأخر 6 أيام،لعدم توفر أماكن وظروف مناسبة لدفنها من قبل النظام الايراني حليف نظامي قطر وتركيا#امجد_طه pic.twitter.com/MchneveUGW

— Amjad Taha أمجد طه (@amjadt25) March 3, 2020

Google translation:

"70,000 infected and 1,235 people died due to #KV virus in Iran.

■ Block and close everything to and from Iran.
 
● Here is the city of Qom! It shows the accumulation of corona victims' bodies in one of the laundries, awaiting burial, after a delay of 6 days, due to the lack of suitable places and conditions for burial by the Iranian regime, an ally of the regimes of Qatar and Turkey"

Rumours circulating that Macron has a touch of the old Corona.  Whenever a high profile politician or celeb goes AWOL for a few days the rumours will begin. I noticed that Screaming Mary has apparently gone down with it too. 

Nooooo....,.... not dear, sweet Macron!