The number of coronavirus cases in Italy has surged to 400 with the World Health Organisation confirming for the first time the virus is spreading faster outside China.
More than 80,000 people in 40 countries have now been infected since December but it is Italy which is now the focus.
At least 55,000 people in 11 towns in the North are now in quarantine and in the past 48 hours Austria, Croatia, Greece, Norway, Switzerland, Georgia and Macedonia have all reported their first cases of infection - mostly from recent travellers to Italy.
Nita Blake-Persen reports on the spread of Covid-19 and the fears of a global pandemic and possible recession.
