Infographics: Impact of coronavirus on Hajj, international travel & global economy

Analysts have warned that the pathogen's economic impact could reach the level of 2008 financial crisis.

Analysts have warned that the pathogen's economic impact could reach level of 2008 financial crisis. (Photo | AFP)

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28 Feb 2020, 10:52 am

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Workers clean the Kaaba as Muslim pilgrims circumambulate around it at the Grand Mosque, during the minor pilgrimage, known as Umrah in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. (Photo | AP)

Workers clean the Kiswah, the cloth that covers the Kaaba, the cubic building toward which Muslim believers turn when praying, at the Grand Mosque in Mecca. (Photo | AP)

A cleaner sanitises the cockpit of a regional train, at the Garibaldi train station in Milan, Italy. (Photo | AP)

Cleaners sanitise a wagon on a regional train in Italian capital of Milan. (Photo | AP)

A tourist in quarantine inside the H10 Costa Adeje Palace hotel in La Caleta, in the Canary island of Tenerife, Spain. Spanish officials say a tourist hotel on the Canary Island of Tenerife has been placed in quarantine after an Italian doctor staying there tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. (Photo | AP)