With each share losing $1.88 as of Monday afternoon, Murren’s timely sell-off means he avoided losses of $1.29 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The CEO, who announced his resignation earlier this month, will receive an outgoing compensation package totaling more than $30 million.<\/p>\n
South Korea is now on its highest alert level for infectious diseases. Italy reported a spike in cases of the new coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, and the disease has now spread to the Middle East, including Iran, Iraq, and Kuwait.<\/p>\n
Venice canceled its famed annual Carnival festival, and numerous countries have closed their borders. Despite the global fears and tumbling stock markets, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday that COVID-19 is still not at a level that warrants the use of the term “pandemic.”<\/p>\n
\nFor the moment, we are not witnessing the uncontained global spread of this coronavirus, and we are not witnessing large-scale severe disease or death,” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom said. “What we see are epidemics in different parts of the world, affecting countries in different ways and requiring a tailored response.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
WHO officials said during their Monday briefing that the world must be prepared for an outbreak.<\/p>\n
“All countries must do everything to be prepared,” said UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. “They must do everything to contain the disease.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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