[St Charles Owl]

The EU are keeping the Schengen Zone open which I think is a bad idea because they need to shut the borders in the whole of Europe and there should be monitoring at each border to contain coronavirus to stop the spread of it. Austria have stopped all trains going to or through Italy.

I think closing Schengen would be an over reaction. Localised shutdowns as is being seen in some towns in Northern Italy or the early closing of the Venice Carnival make sense, but a wholesale shutting down of Europe is unnecessary at this point. There are less than 300 confirmed cases in Europe and just 35 in the US so far, those numbers don't justify doing anymore than is being done at the moment.