Coronavirus fears keep FTSE in the red; NMC outperforms

(Reuters) - London's FTSE 100 slipped on Monday after Britain declared the coronavirus epidemic a serious and imminent threat to public health, though preliminary takeover approaches pushed up shares in troubled healthcare company NMC by 14%.The FTSE 100 index of blue-chip companies dipped 0.4% and the midcap index was 0.1% lower by 0842 GMT.The drop was in line with Asian markets, where most indexes were down, as the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak exceeded 900, surpassing that of..