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Business owners contend with threat reality of coronavirus

NEW YORK (AP) — Rachel Sklar planned to go to the big South by Southwest film, media and music gathering in Austin, Texas, this month, but changed her mind as cases of coronavirus started appearing in the U.S. She was scheduled to speak at the annual event and expected to recruit new members for her businesswomen's organization, TheLi.st. “I'm less worried about getting sick than I am about getting stuck in Austin, either by quarantine or, God forbid, things snowball and there is some sort of air travel freeze," Sklar says. She's concerned that either turn of events would prevent her from returning home to her nearly 5-year-old daughter in New York. Some hotels overseas went on lockdown after guests tested positive for the virus, and flights to some cities have been suspended because of widespread outbreaks. Small businesses in the U.S. and other countries are dealing with the fallout or even just the possibility of the coronavirus. Owners are canceling or changing plans, arranging for staffers to work from home, even asking employees who have traveled to places with widespread outbreaks to stay home for as long as a month. Some manufacturers are stockpiling raw materials and components, and companies that depend on in-person interactions with customers are exploring Plan B — getting their work done via video. Sklar is aware that at this point, there isn't a widespread U.S. outbreak but “it's not unreasonable to think that there are these possibilities." She'll try to attend sessions on video when South by Southwest begins, but she'll lose out on chances to network. Many owners whose companies' work is done on computers and the internet are setting employees up to work from home. In New York, the 17 staffers at Lunchbox now must take their laptops and chargers home every night to ensure that they can...

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Iran says 'tens of thousands' may get tested for coronavirus

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran is preparing for the possibility of "tens of thousands" of people getting tested for the new coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases spiked again Saturday, an official said, underscoring the fear both at home and abroad over the outbreak in the Islamic Republic. The virus and the COVID-19 illness it causes have killed 43 people out of 593 confirmed cases in Iran, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said. He disputed a report by the BBC's Persian service citing anonymous medical officials in Iran putting the death toll at over four times as much. But the number of known cases versus deaths would put the virus' death rate in Iran at over 7%, much higher than other countries. That's worried experts at the World Health Organization and elsewhere that Iran may be underreporting the number of cases now affecting it. Yet even as Iran sends spray trucks and fumigators into the streets, officials still are trying to downplay the virus' reach. "During these 10 days that we are talking about the coronavirus in the country, more than 480 people of our country has been killed in traffic accidents, but no one noticed them," Jahanpour said. The virus has infected more than 85,000 people and caused more than 2,900 deaths since emerging in China. Iran, with 43 people dead, has the world's highest death toll outside of China. Of the 730 confirmed cases scattered across the Mideast, the majority trace back to the Islamic Republic. Saturday's new toll of 593 confirmed cases represents a jump of 205 cases - a 52% increase from the 388 reported the day before. Jahanpour has warned that large increases in the number of confirmed cases would happen as Iran now has 15 laboratories testing for the virus. Late Friday night, a...

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