Covid-19 cases surge outside China
Iranian municipality workers spraying disinfectant as a precaution against Covid-19 at a wagon of Tehran’s public subway yesterday. According to the Ministry of Health, 95 people diagnosed with coronavirus in the country and 15 people have died. – EPA pic, February 26, 2020.
NEW coronavirus cases surged outside of China yesterday, leaving an Iranian deputy minister among the stricken and triggering mass disruption as a top health official warned the world is not prepared for containing the epidemic. Even as the number of fresh cases declines at the epicentre of the disease in China, there has been a sudden increase in parts of Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
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