Health commissioner Stella Kyriakides said 2,100 cases of coronavirus were confirmed in 18 of the 27 EU states, and 38 EU citizens had died because of the disease.

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said the EU’s disease prevention agency had raised its assessment of coronavirus risks in the bloc to high, as the outbreak spread to most EU states, Reuters reported on Monday.

The bloc is ready to deploy all possible measures to tackle the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the European economy, as health risks in Europe were raised to high, the EU’s economics commissioner said on Monday.

Paolo Gentiloni added there should be a “coordinated fiscal response” from European countries. It “has to be very timely. You can’t take it too early, you can’t take it too late,” he said in Brussels.

Source: RT