Saudi Arabia cut travel to Islam’s pilgrimage sites, South Korea toughened penalties for those breaking quarantines, Japan closed schools, and airports across Latin America looked for signs of sick passengers on Feb. 27 as the coronavirus stirred fears across of the globe.
“Viruses don’t know borders and they don’t stop at them,” said Roberto Speranza, the health minister in Italy, where northern towns were on army-guarded lockdowns and supermarket shelves were bare.
