Global spread of new coronavirus: Where is it?

PARIS, Feb 23, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – The new coronavirus that emerged in central
China at the end of last year has now killed more than 2,400 people and
spread around the world.

Outside mainland China there have been 24 deaths and more than 1,500
infections reported, with the most cases concentrated in South Korea and the
Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined off Japan.

Here is a roundup of the areas where cases of COVID-19, the virus’s
official designation, have been confirmed:

– CHINA –

As of Sunday some 77,000 people had been infected and 2,442 had died across
mainland China, the majority in and around Wuhan, the capital of Hubei
province, where the outbreak was first reported.

Two people have died and at least 69 people have been infected in Hong
Kong.

Ten infections have been counted in Macao.

– ASIA-PACIFIC –

South Korea: 602 people have been infected by the virus and five people
have died. The number of cases jumped sharply in the last days after an
outbreak cluster in a religious sect in southern city Daegu.

Japan: more than 130 people have been infected and four have died. Three of
those deaths were passengers who had been on the cruise ship Diamond
Princess, quarantined off Japan, where the number of infections is now at
630.

Singapore: 85

Thailand: 35

Malaysia: 22

Taiwan: 26, including one death

Australia: 17

Vietnam: 16

Philippines: 3, including one death

India: 3

Nepal: 1

Sri Lanka: 1

Cambodia: 1

– NORTH AMERICA –

United States: 35

Canada: 8

– EUROPE –

Italy: 132, two deaths. On Saturday Italy became the first country in
Europe to put some of its citizens under quarantine, with over 50,000
residents in eleven towns facing lockdown.

Germany: 16

France: 12, including one death

Britain: 9

Russia: 5

Spain: 2

Finland: 1

Sweden: 1

Belgium: 1

– MIDDLE EAST –

Iran: 43, 8 deaths, the largest number of fatalities of any country outside
China.

United Arab Emirates: 11

Israel: 1

Lebanon: 1

– AFRICA –

Egypt: 1