The rapid spread of the coronavirus in Milan forced the Borsa Italiana to cancel our launch event in Italy this week. While disappointing for us, we knew this was for the best.
But as the world has now absorbed, Covid-19 is no ordinary virus. And the Italian situation is certainly no ordinary situation. So much so, in fact, that yesterday Italian officials cut short the Venice Carnival in an effort to control it. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the coronavirus now presents "public enemy number one" with infections having exceeded 80,000. To put that into context, SARS only had 8,098 infections in total. Coronavirus contagion concerns: Unknown territory But, we have not yet all turned into zombies and China appears to be getting the ...
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