Coronavirus: Ireland v Italy Six Nations game postponed amid European rise in cases - live updates
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More than 80,000 cases worldwide as impact on financial markets continues and UK schools told not to shut over infection fears. Follow live newsCoronavirus: is it safe to travel and should children be kept home?WHO expert says world not ready for pandemicUK: schools to shut and travel curbs planned if virus spreadsTell us: have you been affected by the coronavirus? 2.55pm GMT Related: Ireland v Italy Six Nations match postponed due to coronavirus 2.48pm GMT The decision to cancel Ireland´s game against Italy came after the intervention of Ireland´s health minister, Simon Harris, who told RTE news:`The very clear view of the public health emergency team was that this game should not go ahead and that it would constitute a significant risk, because a very large number of people will be travelling from what is now an affected region. So my department will be contacting the IRFU [Irish Rugby Football Union] in relation to this.` 2.43pm GMT Ireland´s rugby match against Italy has been cancelled over fears about coronavirus.BREAKING Irish rugby chief Philip Browne confirms Irish government has determined that forthcoming Ireland v Italy 6Nations match CANNOT go ahead because of coronavirus. Hoping to reschedule but no details yet on when pic.twitter.com/FBpOBpabry 2.20pm GMT Nigel Scotland, one of the tourists in quarantine at a hotel in Tenerife, said many of his fellow guests were ignoring the advice to stay in their rooms. `I counted 268 people on sun beds,` he told BBC Radio 4´s World at One. He said he also saw people swimming in the hotel pool. 2.04pm GMT British tourists quarantined in a Tenerife hotel where four former guests tested positive for coronavirus say they are desperate to return to the UK to avoid contracting the disease.They fear that by being locked in the four-star hotel they will face the same outcome as passengers on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship, where the virus spread as the boat remained quarantined off Yokohama. Related: Britons ...