New coronavirus infections spiked dramatically across Europe on Sunday, with Italy reporting hundreds of new cases and five more deaths. The number of confirmed cases also jumped in France, Germany and the UK, and the Czech Republic reported its first case.

As the disease continued its rapid spread and governments introduced emergency measures to halt the progress of the escalating epidemic, outbreaks worsened in Iran and South Korea. The US also reported two new infections, one in Chicago and another in Rhode Island, marking the eastern state’s first case.

Italy said confirmed infections had risen 40% in 24 hours to 1,576, with the death toll now at 34. In Germany the number of people infected had almost doubled to 129 on Sunday, while France’s total stood at 100 – up from 38 on Friday.

Italy was the first European country to report a major surge in cases of the coronavirus, with numbers quickly climbing into the hundreds and has strategically affected the Italian economy according to BBC news

The authorities have responded with travel restrictions in the north of the country that are bound to hit the economy.

So far, a number of towns in Lombardy in northern Italy have been locked down, with very limited numbers of people being allowed in or out.

That matters, because northern Italy is the country's industrial powerhouse. Lombardy alone accounts for 40% of Italian industrial output. Milan is Italy's key centre for finance and a range of other services.

Milan is not one of the areas covered by the shutdown. But even so, major tourist and cultural sites such as the cathedral (the Duomo) and the opera house La Scala have been closed.

Iran meanwhile raised its death toll from 43 to 54 as its number of confirmed infections rose by more than half to 978, amid continuing concerns that official figures still do not reflect the full scale of the outbreak there.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/01/coronavirus-deaths-iran-rise-global-outbreak-worsens

thank God it has not gotten to Turin .d GOAT is save

Italy be sharing the virus like

What's Wrong with ITALY

Forget the little numbers they be mentioning here, coronavirus has killed thousands of people in Asia so far. Since it's first case in Nigeria last week I've not been myself anymore. No more appetite for food and joy has gone

Don't know why it's bothering me as if i had lost a family member

God help us

Na wa o!

Abeg Mona stay dat side.......

They are also the net exporters of the virus. Just yesterday and they also infected Equador.

No panic here. It's 40 degrees in Abuja on the 1st of March!! Open your windows, wash yours hands and eat well...You'll be FINE!!! The virus can't survive 35 degrees

this is like the plague

Abfinest007:
thank God it has not gotten to Turin .d GOAT is save

...safe.

I BEEN THINK SAY THIS WHITE PEOPLE GET SENSE

Cool

Hope our Edo girls are safe

God help us

Abfinest007:
thank God it has not gotten to Turin .d GOAT is save

Stay there and be whining about people who doesn't know you exist while your poor country is in a disastrous condition.

Do you know if this Virus originated from Africa, the way this Oyinbo will treat us will sp terrible. the discrimination will be so.alarming

Isinweke:
Cool

Hope our Edo girls are safe

That's where the issue lies

tsephanyah:
Hmm

Do you understand that this your picture is stupid?

Number 1 the numbers are wrong.
Number 2, Corona is novelty and is not well spread as common cold so it makes no sense to compare the casualties. You can't compare a sample of 50000 with a sample of a Billion or more. Makes no logical sense.

Abfinest007:
thank God it has not gotten to Turin .d GOAT is save

lol...e dan fly go spain ooo.... baba is.not taking any chances

tsephanyah:
Hmm

Your stupidity knows no bound and soon you will be dealt a strong hand by this virus.

Make Edo people no bring am spread for 9ja more

H.. M