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Travel bans, market chaos: Dizzying reaction to virus spread

by Associated Press
| March 12, 2020 8:30 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Sweeping travel bans cascaded around the globe Thursday, walling off countries and even entire continents, keeping people inside their homes, and slowing the engines of commerce to stem the coronavirus pandemic. Markets collapsed worldwide with the growing realization that there would be no fast end to the uncertainty.

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