NEW: @TfL have announced a reduced service to enable key workers to make essential journeys.

➡️ Up to 40 stations now closed

➡️ Waterloo and City line and the Night Tube suspended from tomorrow

Details here. Please check before you travel: #COVID19 https://t.co/OMc1nd9rVP pic.twitter.com/xlBF18Xett

— Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) March 19, 2020

Coronavirus: 40 London Underground stations to be closed https://t.co/b9G0ZFMZZe

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) March 19, 2020

Three stories this morning…

🔴 London Underground to partially shut https://t.co/1El201DxRB
🔴 Up to 20,000 troops on standby to help with #COVID19 outbreak https://t.co/zcd73DkOmb
🔴 UK schools to close until further notice https://t.co/Ex8pQOgH5G pic.twitter.com/W2D17qshkB

— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 19, 2020

“Don’t travel unless you really have to”
– The 40 stations closing today as London begins to shut down for real
– A third of the 104 deaths are in London which is ‘couple weeks’ ahead of rest of country
– One hospital in London told @SkyNews it is reaching ICU capacity pic.twitter.com/AuSj9c6nYq

— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) March 19, 2020

London is facing a lockdown, possibly before the weekend, as Boris Johnson prepares sweeping new measures https://t.co/ZxrZNyEbGt

— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) March 18, 2020

London paramedics rationed to one face mask between two https://t.co/ytgqpixw5Q

— Guardian news (@guardiannews) March 19, 2020

Liquidity evaporated in the foreign currency market as traders worry the trading hub in London could be shut down https://t.co/XVp9ATA5tD pic.twitter.com/wo4kNn0xgJ

— Bloomberg (@business) March 19, 2020

A day unlike any I can remember. And this is only the beginning. Tomorrow's front page of the FT pic.twitter.com/nNy8NyGS4v

— Matthew Garrahan (@MattGarrahan) March 18, 2020

oh if things were bad enough, the internet is not really coping with things and the EU has asked users to be 'responsible' about their usage (that will work!) https://t.co/pT7Oz079kP

— Tony Tassell (@TonyTassell) March 19, 2020

Australia will bar all foreigners from entering the country beginning on Friday, becoming the latest world leader to enact a wide-sweeping travel ban since the pandemic was declared.

Latest updates: https://t.co/r0oxTkawdi

— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 19, 2020

JUST IN: First coronavirus death in Russia

— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) March 19, 2020

There is leadership and then there is Angela Merkel. This is what crisis communication is all about. Transparency, empathy and encoragement.
Angela Merkel Nails Coronavirus Speech — Unlike Trump https://t.co/zdjXBglduJ

— Alexander Stubb (@alexstubb) March 19, 2020

Iran on Wednesday reported its single biggest jump in fatalities from the coronavirus as another 147 people died https://t.co/BgMgUb0XVF

— TIME (@TIME) March 19, 2020

Italy got no joy from EU partners when it pleaded for masks this month. Now China has sent 300 doctors and nurses, impressing—and unnerving— Europe. https://t.co/QqEcqeQb6f

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) March 19, 2020

China says the former virus epicenter of Wuhan and its surrounding province has reported no new cases. It is a dramatic change in the city overwhelmed by thousands of new patients each day when the outbreak was peaking there last month. https://t.co/UXMHTj3UzP

— The Associated Press (@AP) March 19, 2020

Trump said his use of the term “Chinese virus” to describe the coronavirus isn’t racist https://t.co/917XdjcNQa

— Bloomberg (@business) March 19, 2020

The Chinese scientist who invented the coronavirus test had worked at the University of Florida for 25 years and raised his kids here but left, along with two other notable researchers, because of the Trump administration investigating them.https://t.co/xClaxnqXZ1

— Jennifer Hayden (@Scout_Finch) March 18, 2020

1/ This is obviously racist, but it’s also an opportunistic gimmick to change the subject away from Trump’s massive managerial failures on corona. The Trump GOP has already discounted the costs of racist signaling; this stuff won't lose them any voters they haven't already lost. https://t.co/EwNdPzvveD

— Robert E Kelly (@Robert_E_Kelly) March 19, 2020

How @realDonaldTrump handled and downplayed the #CoronaVirus 😟 pic.twitter.com/k5Y7DiXy9p

— Arjan de Raaf (@AJdeRaaf) March 19, 2020

It’s pretty simple: Every poll to date has shown that 100% of respondents who think Trump is doing a good job think he’s doing a good job. Can’t beat that. https://t.co/XIuxFE3K8t

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 19, 2020

There are some choices missing here. https://t.co/PZIjKFzsVJ

— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) March 19, 2020

Trump’s Spiritual Adviser Paula White Is Using the Coronavirus Crisis to Bankroll Her Church https://t.co/OfW8bw4aBz

— #TheResistance (@SocialPowerOne1) March 19, 2020

The U.S. Senate passed a more than $100 billion coronavirus aid package on Wednesday, sending it on to Trump who is expected to sign it into law. Lawmakers are already working on another stimulus effort in response to the widening outbreak in the country.https://t.co/TcSPiOrOxS

— Jade Walker (@jadewalker) March 19, 2020