Coronavirus: More New Cases Are Now Reported Outside China Than Inside

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February 26th, 2020

The virus that causes COVID-19 is now found in 37 countries outside of China, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says. Here, police officers wear face masks in front of a hotel in the Canary Island of Tenerife, Spain, Wednesday. Spanish officials say a tourist hotel on island has been placed under quarantine after an Italian doctor staying there tested positive for the coronavirus.

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“Yesterday, the number of new cases reported outside China exceeded the number of new cases in China for the first time,” the head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday in an update on the coronavirus disease COVID-19.

“Outside China, there are now 2,790 cases in 37 countries, and 44 deaths,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a briefing in Geneva. By contrast, the WHO says, only 10 new cases were reported in mainland China outside of Hubei province, where the virus emerged months ago.

The latest global tally includes dozens of new cases in South Korea, Italy and Iran. Each of those countries has confirmed at least 10 deaths so far from COVID-19, a mark that surpasses the death toll reported in many Chinese provinces.

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