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lunasun

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Wed Mar 18, 2020, 12:42 PM Mar 2020

Spain orders hotels to close

This will be hard to do in a week considering issues with travel ....
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Spain has ordered all hotels to close by Tuesday as part of the country’s expanding lockdown and emergency measures to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

Spain, which has had about 600 deaths and over 13,700 coronavirus cases, is a very popular tourist destination for Europeans and others.

From Peru to Morocco to Ukraine, tourists have reported becoming stranded after sudden flight cancellations amid closing borders left them with no route home. The United States has banned travelers (who aren’t U.S. citizens or permanent residents) from Europe, as well as China and Iran, causing almost all flights between the two continents to stop.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/03/18/coronavirus-latest-news/#link-FZEZ4V346VDN7JI4LPPCML7OUQ
The Moroccan government Sunday abruptly suspended international travel and Monday ordered all hotels and restaurants to close. The North African country relies heavily on tourism and hosted around 12 million tourists in 2018 — but that’s changing in the age of the coronavirus. Countries such as Britain and France have raced to organize emergency flights out of Morocco prioritizing their citizens, while U.S. citizens have pleaded with the U.S. government to assist them in finding a way home.

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