Passengers from Seoul Inchon enter quarantine at Narita international airport in Japan. – EPA pic, March 9, 2020.
STOCK markets today plunged around Asia, as panic selling set in with traders fretting over the economic impact of the new coronavirus and digesting a free-fall in the oil price. By mid-morning, the benchmark Nikkei 225 index had dropped 5.10% or 1,058.06 points to 19,691.69, while the broader Topix index was off 5.01% or 73.69 points to 1,397.77.
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