By Meg Wagner, Joshua Berlinger, Jessie Yeung, Adam Renton and Sheena McKenzie, CNN
From CNN’s Pamela Boykoff and Clare Sebastian
American Airlines just announced additional schedule changes because of decreased travel demand due to the coronavirus.
The airline will cut international capacity for the summer peak by 10%, including a 56% cut in trans-Pacific flight capacity.
The airline will also reduce is domestic flight capacity by 7.5%, according to a news release.
Moments ago, Delta Air Lines it will cut its international flights by 20% and 25% and domestic flights by 10% to 15%.
From CNN’s Barry Neild
The headlines focus on quarantined cruise ships and shuttered Disney Parks but what about the rest of the tourism industry?
The short answer: it’s facing serious trouble. The closure of Italy’s borders effectively sequesters the world’s fifth most popular tourism destination -- cutting it off from its 62 million annual visitors and the 13% contribution they make to its economy.
Other closures, quarantines and cancellations keep rolling in -- Dublin St. Patrick’s Day, a luxury Maldives Resort, festivals. At the sharp end are the tens of thousands of small businesses -- hotels, taxi drivers, restaurants -- now battling for survival.
Places like Egypt, where tourism is only just recovering from a downturn caused by political turmoil, or Australia, recently ravaged by bushfires, can ill afford another crisis.
And then there are the millions worldwide who, having dreamed of an escape during months of hard toil, will now be denied it, and will possibly lose the money they’ve already forked out for it.
Of course, plenty of destinations are still unaffected, raising questions over whether it’s still right to travel. In many cases, it’s probably OK so long as government advice says it is -- and there's some great deals to be found. But for those traveling from a location with coronavirus, there’s the added conundrum of whether you’re putting others at risk.
Coronavirus is hitting the travel industry hard:
From CNN’s Chris Isidore
Delta Air Lines is the latest US airline to slash its schedule to adjust for the sharp decline in bookings during the coronavirus outbreak.
Delta executives said it will cut its international flights between 20% to 25%. It's also making a 10% to 15% cut in domestic flights.
"We are prepared to do more as the situation evolves," said CEO Ed Bastian at JP Morgan’s Industrials Conference.
Budget airline Norwegian is cancelling 3,000 flights between mid-March and mid-June because of coronavirus. The airline says it has experienced reduced demand for flights in the past week.
The cancellations represent around 15% of its total capacity, and will effect all of its routes.
Norwegian is also implementing temporary layoffs for some flight crews and ground staff.
Each day, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta is breaking down the latest news about the coronavirus on the Coronavirus: Fact vs Fiction podcast.
In today's episode, he explains why CNN is now calling the coronavirus outbreak a "pandemic" and answers key questions about how the spread of the virus may impact our daily lives going forward.
From CNN’s Ramin Mostaghim in Tehran
Iran on Tuesday confirmed 8,042 coronavirus cases, the second-highest number outside of China, after Italy.
The Middle East country had 291 deaths from the virus, a Health Ministry spokesman said on state TV.
The vast majority of cases -- 2,114 -- were in the capital Tehran.
Here's a quick recap of the top five countries with confirmed cases, from CNN's latest tally:
Globally: 114,633 cases (4,072 deaths)
Mainland China: 80,754 (3,136)
Italy: 9,172 (463)
Iran: 8,042 (291)
South Korea: 7,513 (54)
Japan: 1,210 (16)
From CNN’s Amanda Watts
US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar says his department isn’t sure how many tests for the novel coronavirus have been performed in the United States.
Speaking to CNN’s John Berman on New Day Tuesday, Azar said: “We don't know exactly how many because of hundreds of thousands of our tests have gone out to private labs and hospitals that currently do not report in to CDC.
"We're working with the CDC and those partners to get an IT reporting system up and running hopefully this week where we would be able to get that data to keep track of how many we're testing,” he added.
Azar went on to say: “We think we've got probably 10,000 a day could be getting tested by the end of the week -- 20,000 a day according to a study by AEI that I've heard about. We've got 2.1 million tests available, 1.1 million have shipped. We actually have a surplus at the moment that are awaiting orders to be shipped.”
“A private vendor shipped most of those 1.1 million that shipped were from a private vendor selling to their customers, and those entities that used their tests do not have to report back to CDC. But we're trying to set up a reporting system where they would in effect do that,” Azar said.
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From Tomas Etzler in Prague and Ivana Kottasova in London
From tomorrow, all schools and universities in the Czech Republic will close, following in the footsteps of dozens of countries around the world which have shut educational institutions in a bid to stem the spread of coronavirus.
Only kindergartens will remain open, under the measures announced by Prime Minister Andrej Babiš at a press conference Tuesday.
Gatherings of more than 100 people will also be banned, he added.
It follows similar clampdowns in Italy and Spain, forcing parents to rethink their routines and wreaking havoc on daily life.
The "global scale and speed of the current educational disruption is unparalleled," the United Nations warned last week.
CNN's Ben Wedeman spoke to Italian parents about coping with the strain of kids in lockdown here.
From CNN’s Aleks Klosok in London
Next week's UEFA Champions League clash between Barcelona and Napoli will happen without any fans in the stands due to fears over coronavirus spreading, FC Barcelona said on Twitter Tuesday.
The match, slated for Wednesday March 18, is the latest UEFA fixture to be affected by the virus.
Valencia's match against Atalanta on Tuesday March 10, and Paris St Germain's fixture with Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday, March 11 are also set to go ahead without supporters.
