'Worse before it gets better': US troops hunker down as coronavirus spreads in Europe

China’s coronavirus outbreak is spreading through Europe, posing a challenge to European Union health officials and the thousands of U.S. troops deployed on the continent.

“The coronavirus has reached Europe for the first time in a situation where we don’t understand every chain of infection and they can’t be connected directly to China,” German Health Minister Jens Spahn said Tuesday. “This means we have a new situation to deal with. I have said it could get worse before it gets better, and this assessment still stands.”