European stocks traded higher on Thursday as investors digest the latest news regarding the coronavirus outbreak and efforts to ease lockdown measures. The pan-European Stoxx 600 closed up by more than 1 percent provisionally, with most sectors and major bourses in positive territory. Retail stocks were the best performers, climbing over 3 percent. German e-commerce company Zalando and biotech firm Morphosys both saw their stock jump more than 11percent by mid-afternoon after posting strong first-quarter earnings. At the other end of the European blue chip index, travel operator Tui slid by 9.9 percent