Greece suspended school trips for the next two weeks and banned fans from sporting events as the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread.

Greece’s Health Ministry announced the new protocol Sunday along with seven new confirmed cases involving Greek citizens. Six of the seven cases are linked to previously confirmed cases.

Greece is suspending all school excursions within the country for two weeks as well as calling for all sporting events to be conducted behind closed doors for the next two weeks.

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The health ministry also said it would be suspending any conference event on its territory fo the next four weeks.

"The transmission of the new coronavirus is spreading worldwide. The whole of Europe is in an epidemic phase of multiple imports, with subsequent transmission to the community,” health ministry spokesman professor Sotiris Tsiodras said in a statement.

“At this stage, our measures are focused on protecting vulnerable groups from the potential spread of the disease,” Tsiodras added.

There are 73 confirmed cases in Greece, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins.

The virus has been spreading globally since originating in China. The majority of the more than 100,000 global cases are in China, which has more than 80,000 of the cases.

In Europe, the most cases are in Italy which has nearly 6,000 confirmed cases, according to Johns Hopkins’s data.