ROME (AFP) - Rome's Ciampino airport will shut to passenger flights from Friday (March 13), authorities said, with a terminal also closing at the city's main Fiumicino facility next week as airlines slash flights to Italy over the coronavirus outbreak.

Ciampino will close to passengers at midnight Friday, a spokesman for the ADR company that runs both airports told AFP, with Terminal 1 at Fiumicino closing on Tuesday.