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On February 25th, a total of 2561 people were diagnosed in the world except for China, and now the total number of confirmed cases in the world except China has exceeded 40, 000.
In just half a month, the number of confirmed outbreaks overseas has increased 16-fold.
The number of deaths increased from 39 to 1219, a 31-fold increase.
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tan Desai said on March 9 that the current COVID-19 epidemic has spread in more than 100 countries and regions around the world, with the number of cases exceeding 100000, and the epidemic is likely to become a worldwide epidemic.
The sharp fall in European and American stock markets at the end of February began with the "fall" of Italy.
At that time, the number of confirmed cases in Italy exceeded 200, and the government urgently cordoned off 11 cities.
Now, the number of confirmed cases in Italy has exceeded 10,000, the key is that the growth rate is still very fast.
The epidemic in Italy is still in the outbreak stage, and the final number of people will be incalculable.
The Italian government was also forced to upgrade its measures, first announcing a blockade of the Lombardy region (population 9 million) on March 7th.
Yesterday, Italy upgraded its measures again, announcing a blockade across the country, banning all public gatherings, closing cinemas, theatres, and other entertainment venues, and suspending funerals, weddings, and sporting events.
Before the blockade was officially implemented, Italian citizens seized the last moment and began to run out desperately. This is undoubtedly a blockbuster for the rest of the EU.
If the epidemic in Italy belongs to the first echelon, then France, Spain, and Germany belong to the second echelon-all of them have more than 1,000 confirmed cases.
There are also third-tier countries such as Switzerland, Norway, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Belgium, and the data are also whizzing up.
East Asia and the Middle East are no longer here. Anyway, 9,000 people have been diagnosed in Iran and 7700 + in South Korea.
As for mainland Japan, the number of confirmed cases appears to be much lower than that of South Korea (613), but because the number of tested cases is also much lower than that of South Korea, the actual number of cases is likely to be far less calm than the paper data suggest (it is not normal that the number of confirmed cases in Hokkaido is far more than in densely populated Tokyo and Osaka).