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SINGAPORE/BEIJING, March 16 (Reuters) – The London Steel Alternate (LME) stated on Monday an worker of 1 its ring-dealing members had contracted the coronavirus, clear of the final open-outcry buying and selling venue in Europe, prompting numerous precautionary measures, together with a deep clear of its places of work.
“The LME was knowledgeable on Sunday {that a} member of employees of an LME ring-dealing member has been recognized with COVID-19,” a spokeswoman for the trade stated in an e mail to Reuters.
The 143-year-old trade, the world’s oldest and largest marketplace for industrial metals, offers 9 brokerages unique rights to commerce LME contracts by open outcry within the ring, a round buying and selling ground within the coronary heart of Britain’s monetary district.
The variety of coronavirus circumstances in Britain rose by 20% to 1,372 on Sunday, whereas the variety of deaths elevated to 35 from 21 a day earlier, in response to the nation’s well being authorities.
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