A cruise ship off the Italian coast north of Rome has been placed on lockdown due to fears of two suspected cases of the fatal Coronavirus on board.
The vast Costa Smeralda cruise liner arrived in Civitavecchia from Palma on the Spanish island of Mallorca as part of a one-week cruise in the Mediterranean.
The World Health Organization is meeting on 30 January to decide whether to declare a global emergency as the virus spreads around the world.