COVID-19 Update 24 February 2020
Today's biggest headline:
Fears are growing that the coronavirus outbreak could reach pandemic scale as more cases emerge around the world.
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Today's Biggest Developments
- WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned on Friday that the window of opportunity to contain the virus was "narrowing". "The tipping point after which [we lose] our ability to prevent a global pandemic seems a lot closer after the past 24 hours," he said on Monday.
- Gold surged to its highest price in seven years as stock markets around the world tumbled.
- Iran said on Sunday it had 61 confirmed cases of the virus, most of them in the holy city of Qom. Twelve of those infected have died, the highest number of deaths outside China.
- North Korea has quarantined 380 foreigners.
- South Korea - which has the largest number of confirmed cases outside China - reported another 231 infections on Monday taking the total there to more than 830. Eight people have died.
- Italy has the largest number of cases in Europe, 165, and announced a series of drastic measures over the weekend to try to contain the outbreak.
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The Latest Stats
CONFIRMED CASES
77,150
+0.5% since Friday
CONFIRMED DEATHS
2,593
+15.4% since Friday
RECOVERIES
24,975
+32.5% since Friday
COVID-19 Growth
Confirmed Cases by Country / Region
- 77,150 Mainland China
- 833 South Korea
- 691 Others
- 230 Italy
- 159 Japan
- 89 Singapore
- 79 Hong Kong
- 61 Iran
- 35 Thailand
- 35 US
- 30 Taiwan
- 22 Australia
- 22 Malaysia
- 16 Germany
- 16 Vietnam
- 13 United Arab Emirates
- 13 UK
- 12 France
- 10 Canada
- 10 Macau
- 3 Kuwait
- 3 Philippines
- 3 India
- 2 Russia
- 2 Spain
- 2 Oman
- 1 Afghanistan
- 1 Nepal
- 1 Cambodia
- 1 Bahrain
- 1 Israel
- 1 Belgium
- 1 Lebanon
- 1 Finland
- 1 Sweden
- 1 Iraq
- 1 Egypt
- 1 Sri Lanka
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Prognosis
Attention is moving away from China, where numbers were never really very reliable anyway, and toward the rest of the world. While not formally classified as a pandemic yet, COVID-19’s intractable march outward and ability to pop up in unexpected places has the hallmarks of one.
The economic and political implications of coronavirus are just beginning to ripple out. If you work in a manufacturing job that gets products from China, it would be sensible to ensure you have enough savings to skip a few paychecks.
I don't think people appreciate just how much the coronavirus outbreak can upend supply chains and really hurt the economy quickly.
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) February 24, 2020
Just a quick look at my small business to illustrate what we're dealing with already due to the #coronavirus shutdown around China. 1/7
