A man wearing a face mask walks past an entrance sign for Bank underground train station backdropped by the Royal Exchange building in London, Wednesday, March 4, 2020. British authorities laid out plans Tuesday to confront a COVID-19 epidemic, saying that the new coronavirus could spread within weeks from a few dozen confirmed cases to millions of infections, with thousands of people in the U.K. at risk of death. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
March 4, 2020
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March 4, 2020 9:53 a.m.
What's Happening: Virus closes schools, Louvre reopens
BERLIN (AP) — More authorities are considering widespread school closures among a raft of measures being taken around the world to stop the spread of the new coronavirus.