On Friday, February 28, there were more than 85,111 cases confirmed in the world and 2,923 dead in more than fifty countries affected by the COVID-19.
Enough to worry the World Health Organization (WHO) which indicated, by the voice of its spokesperson that “the epidemic takes on greater proportions”, and recalled that the international organization had on multiple times, warned that the COVVI-19 could spread on many countries, “even to all countries”.
Apart from continental China, where the epidemic began in December in the province of the Hubei, it is especially in three countries – South Korea, Italy, Iran – that the concern is the strongest.
In China, 78,824 cases of contamination are now recorded and 2788 people died, including 44 these last twenty-four hours. South Korea has recorded 2,337 cases for 13 deaths and represents the second contagion home behind continental China.
Italy now has 888 contaminations, most of them in Lombardy and Venitia. In addition, the number of deaths has increased to 21. The latest assessment of the epidemic outbreak linked to the new coronavirus in Iran is 270 cases of contamination and 26 deaths.
About fifty countries around the world are affected by the coronavirus, including around twenty in Europe. Denmark, Spain, France, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Greece, Croatia, Romania, North Macedonia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus and Iceland are now affected.
