COVID-19: Italy shuts 10 cities, global stocks tumble
World | February 24, 2020 20:29 ISTGlobal stocks, led by Italy, tumbled on Monday after the country declared a lockdown in at least 10 cities applying to nearly 50,000 people -- the first-ever in Europe -- in an effort to contain the biggest outbreak of the virus outside Asia, with 152 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 3 deaths.