The cost of the March futures for North sea petroleum mix of mark Brent at stock exchange ICE dropped to 59, 31 dollars for barrel, follows from data of trading by 5. 52 GMT. Oil fell 2, 32%. The sharp drop in prices happened in 02. 08 GMT - then the price of futures dropped to 58, $ 84. Investors, As explained before, the experts refuse to purchase oil because of fears around the outbreak of the coronavirus in China. at the end of December, Chinese authorities announced the outbreak of pneumonia of unknown origin in the densely populated city of Wuhan (Hubei province). Experts have established that the causative agent was a new type of coronavirus - 2019-nCoV, which is transmitted from person to person. Among the symptoms - fever, cough, shortness of breath and fever. according to the final data, from 2019-nCoV have died 80 people, the number of cases exceeded 2, 7 thousand. As reported by the authorities, the outbreak has entered in a " relatively serious and complicated stage ". The virus has spread beyond China, cases of infection were recorded in South Korea, Japan, USA, Thailand, Canada, Vietnam, Singapore, Nepal, France, Australia and Malaysia. <span style="color:darkgray