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08:19 IAG unable to predict results

The IAG hólding, owner of British Airways and Iberia, reports that it cannot provide a forecast of benefits for 2020 due to the uncertainty related to the coronavirus, which has already reduced travel demand. The loss estimate for the tourism sector has been estimated at around 20,000 million worldwide.

IAG has pointed to a 5.7% drop in operating profit to 3,285 million euros in 2019 and this year its results will be affected by cancellations. In the coming days it will reduce flights in its European short distance network, reports Reters.

Scared by the coronavirus, airlines like Germany's Lufthansa and the KLM, based in Amsterdam, have rushed to cut costs in recent days.

07:12 The Nikkei gets from Wall Street

The Nikkei index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange has closed today with a fall of 3.67%, with the parquet tokiota infected by the sharp decline in Wall Street and amid fears for the economic impact of the new coronavirus.

With today's decline, the Nikkei has already accumulated five consecutive days with a negative result but is far from the record decline recorded in the session of October 20, 1987 (-14.90%), reports Efe.

From the beginning, the Tokyo parquet was betting on sales after the Wall Street Thursday session registered a 4.42% drop in the Dow Jones of Industrials and 4.61% in the Nasdaq.

4:17 Disneyland in Tokyo will close for two weeks for fear of the coronavirus

The Tokyo DisneyLand and Tokyo DisneySea theme park complex, on the outskirts of the Japanese capital, will remain closed for two weeks due to fear of the spread of the new coronavirus, the operator announced Friday.

"Tokyo DisneyLand and Tokyo DisneySea have decided on an exceptional closure from Saturday, February 29 until March 15," said Oriental Land in a statement, after the government asked for public measures to avoid crowds.

This decision is not the first of its kind, but it is one of the most significant for a place that receives about 32.5 million visitors per year. The third most visited theme park in the world.

The Japanese government also asked on Thursday to close all primary schools, colleges and high schools in the country for several weeks and asked companies to provide their employees with the license and telework.

3:38 Record a case of coronavirus in Nigeria, the first in sub-Saharan Africa

Nigerian Health Minister Osagie Ehanire announced Friday that the country registered a case of contamination with the new coronavirus, the first in a country in sub-Saharan Africa.

This is "an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and returned from Milan to Lagos on February 25" and is currently "clinically stable, without serious symptoms" at the Contagious Diseases Hospital in Yaba, Lagos.

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