A worker sanitizes a public transport bus following the coronavirus emergency, in Rome, Friday, March 6, 2020. The Italian government has ordered all sporting events to take place without spectators and has urged the cancellation of all mass gatherings. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)
March 6, 2020
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March 6, 2020 5:54 p.m.
Virus cases top 100,000 in 90 countries as markets take dive
PARIS (AP) — Crossing more borders, the new coronavirus hit a milestone, infecting more than 100,000 people worldwide as it wove itself deeper into the daily lives of millions, infecting the powerful, the unprotected poor and vast masses in between.