Do you remember when the 3,700 passengers and crew aboard the cruise ship Diamond Princess were placed under quarantine because one – count em, just one! – passenger had been diagnosed with the virus? Soon, that number climbed to 70. Then it climbed to more than 200. Today, that number has increased to 705, with 14 new cases just in the past day. Four people on that vessel have died, and another 36 are in critical condition.
25 Feb 2020 – Total reported coronavirus cases: 81,296 – The rate of new cases appears to be slowing, but I don’t believe the reports coming out of China’s communist government. (See China Hundreds of thousands infected but not reported.
8,867 reported in serious or critical condition
Total reported deaths: 2,770
Total reported recovered: 30,359
60 new cases in Italy
284 new cases in South Korea
No new cases or deaths in the U.S.
Source:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
See also this interactive map:
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
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