Vitol warns Europe may struggle to contain spread of coronavirus

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London-The potential impact on oil demand from the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Europe is still tough to estimate, but could be exacerbated by the region's inability to match China's robust efforts to contain the outbreak, the head of the commodity trading group Vitol said Wednesday. Several European countries announced Tuesday their first coronavirus cases, all of which were apparently linked to a growing outbreak in northern Italy. Austria, Croatia and Switzerland have all said their cases involved people who had been to Italy, which has become Europe's worst-affected country, with more than 380 cases and 12 deaths.