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Business Matters: Japan to close all schools to halt spread of coronavirus

Japan to close all schools to halt spread of coronavirus

28/02/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Japan to close all schools to halt spread of coronavirus

Japan to ask all schools to close from Monday to prevent the spread of the coronavirus

Japan is to ask all schools to close from Monday to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said all schools should close from Monday to prevent the spread of coronavirus. We ask Dr Norio Ohmagari - who heads both the Disease Control and Prevention Center in Tokyo and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Prevention, Preparedness and Response to Emerging Infectious Diseases - what he thinks of the decision to close Japan's schools. Goldman Sachs has warned that the spread of coronavirus could wipe out any growth in American company profits this year, as stocks slump for a sixth success day. We get the latest from John Mervin, our New York Business Editor. Plus, we look at US billionaire Mike Bloomberg's bid to be the Democratic presidential nominee, with the help of his biographer, Eleanor Randolph.

All this and more discussed with our guest Yoko Ishikura, Professor Emeritus at Hitotsubashi University, in Tokyo. 

(Photo: Elementary school children in Ichikawa, Japan. Credit: Getty Images)

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