Stay at home to slow virus's spread, German health minister urges


  • World
  • Sunday, 08 Mar 2020

FILE PHOTO: German Health Minister Jens Spahn addresses a news conference on coronavirus in Berlin, Germany, February 27, 2020. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse/File Photo

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's health minister Jens Spahn called on organisers of large public events to cancel them and urged members of the public to stay at home in the hope that staging the coronavirus's spread would help spare the healthcare system.

With coronavirus cases spreading rapidly, pressure is growing for a broader public health response in the country after Italy locked down swathes of the north to contain the raging epidemic there.

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