France has just exceeded the bar of fifty cases of Covid-19 coronavirus while the situation is not improving in the Italian neighbor. In addition, cases are increasing in Europe and around the world. This epidemic is gradually turning into a pandemic.
In just a few days, the number of confirmed cases in France has multiplied by 4. Now, our country has 57 cases for 2 deaths . No fewer than 18 cases have been reported in the Oise department. This increase was, however, expected in view of the recent appearance of a focus of infection in northern Italy. On February 28, 2020, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran confirmed that a new stage of the epidemic had been crossed and that we had reached "Stage 2".
However, this stage 2 means that the virus is now circulating freely in the territory French. In addition to the usual recommendations to limit the spread, others have appeared. It is now recommended not to send children who have just returned from a risk area to school. Furthermore, the handshakes should be avoided while wearing a mask is considered unnecessary for healthy people.
As the South China Morning Post reported on February 29, the latest global assessment of the coronavirus epidemic reports 85,162 confirmed cases and 2,923 deaths. . We should also mention the 36,444 remissions. If the epidemic slows down considerably in China, South Korea is for the first time at the forefront of new cases detected. Now, this country has almost 3,150 cases for 16 deaths with 813 additional cases this Saturday.
The two other new centers of infection, Italy and Iran, are also seeing their number of cases increase. Italy now has 889 cases for 21 deaths and Iran 593 cases for 42 deaths. In Europe, some countries hitherto spared are now affected. This is the case of Switzerland (5 cases), Croatia (4), Greece (4), Romania (3) and Austria (2). Other countries such as Lithuania, Estonia and Belarus have just confirmed their first case.
In other continents, new countries have also just confirmed imported cases. Let us quote New Zealand or Brazil, first South American country affected . In addition, Central America is no longer an exception with 2 cases reported in Mexico. In Africa, a third case revealed in Nigeria after those revealed in Algeria and Egypt raises fears of the spread of the coronavirus on this continent, the means of which seem very limited.
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