The Formula 1 paddock is closely monitoring the coronavirus situation ♌as it develops while it prepares for the opening flyaway races.

With F1 already postponing the Chinese Grand Prix from its origina🐠l April date due to the outbreak of the coronavirus in the country, speculation over both the Vietnamese and Bahrain rounds due to cases of the virus despite F1 chief executive Chase Carey stating “all systems are go” on Wednesday while accepting the situation is developing.

But as the virus spreads across Europe, with a spike in cases in northern Italy close to where Ferrari, AlphaTauri🔜 and tyre suppliers Pirelli are based, F1 teams are preparinꩵg to hold talks about plans for the start of the 2020 season.

“It’s a situation that is changing almost hour by hour and we’re reacting accordingly in order to make sure that we protect the people that work for us,” Williams deput𒀰y team principal Claire Williams told Reuters.

“There are a lot of🥀 questions that maybe need t꧑o be discussed and answered.”

F1’s senior management, the FIA and teams are expected to meet tomorrow on the final day of pre-season testing at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya to discuss the virus and potential plans. While the details on t🦹he potential meetings remain unconfirmed, Haas team principal 🎐Guenther Steiner is confident in the sport’s preparations amid the coronavirus outbreak.

“They are looking at it carefully.𝔉 You cannot take no risk if you go anywhere these days, everybody is at risk [from something],” Steiner said. “To keep it as low as possible and make the right decision. We don’t get involved in t😼hat one, we don’t have the resources to do that.

“They have and the FIA has all the connections with the governments and so on. I think they are thoroughly making sur🀅e we are as safe as can be.”

F1 teams are currently assessing its travel routes to the opening rounds to avoid the areas reported with the hi♏ghest number of cases, but with the virus developing rapidly teams are having to be reactive to changes.

“A lot of our team were routed through Singapore (to Melbourne) and the cost o🌱f having to re-route is significant,” William💞s added to Reuters.

“It is a big problem and something we’re tr🐷ying to w♚ork through at the moment.”