Morning trading April 26, page-191

The Australian share market has shed around $60 billion from its total value over fears that COVID-19 has spread to China's capital Beijing. As of 11:45 AEST the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 was down 139 points or 1.87 per cent to 7,333 points. Investors fear that China's "zero tolerance" to COVID-19 infections will result in mass industry shutdowns in Beijing, which will have a flow-on effect to the world's markets.