Health Desk- 01 March,
2020: South Korea reported its biggest surge in new coronavirus cases on Friday
as concerns grew of a possible epidemic in the United States and the World
Health Organization raised its risk alert to its highest level.
Meanwhile, a patient infected with the virus in Washington died,
a state official said, reports CNN. It marks the first death due to the virus
in the US.
The virus has rapidly spread across the world in the past
week, causing stock markets to sink to their lowest levels since the 2008 global
financial crisis over fears that the disease could wreak havoc on the world
economy.
More than 2,900 people have died and over 85,000 have been
infected worldwide since it was first detected in the central Chinese city of
Wuhan late last year.
The vast majority of infections have been in China but more
daily cases are now logged outside the country, with South Korea, Italy and
Iran emerging as major hotspots.
South Korea has the most cases outside China, with 3,150
infections as 813 more patients were reported yesterday-- the country's biggest
increase to date. Three women in the Daegu area died of the illness yesterday,
taking the national toll to 17.
The virus has also spread to new zones in recent days,
reaching 10 new countries including Qatar, Azerbaijan, Mexico and New Zealand,
as well as reaching sub-Saharan Africa with Nigeria reporting its first case.
"We have now increased our assessment of the risk of
spread and the risk of impact of COVID-19 to very high at global level,"
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Friday.
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