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In China, where the virus appeared at the end of 2019, authorities announced on Monday 42 new deaths, bringing the death toll from the disease in the country to 2,912 dead. But the number of new cases identified this weekend is the lowest since January 26.
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In Italy, however, some 500 new cases were identified on Sunday, a dramatic leap bringing the number of contagions to nearly 1,700 in the country. Five new deaths have also been reported, bringing the death toll to 34 deaths in the peninsula, still in three regions of the north of the country: Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna and Veneto.
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As for South Korea, the second most affected country after China, it recorded nearly 500 additional cases and four new deaths on Monday, for a total of more than 4,000 contaminations, including 22 fatalities.
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France, a new acute center of contamination in Europe, lists 130 cases and two deaths. The Louvre Museum is closed. The Paris Book Fair, a major meeting for French-language publishing that was to be held from March 20 to 23, has been canceled.
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Germany registers 129 cases. More than half of the German patients come from North Rhine-Westphalia (west), where an infected couple had participated in a carnival at the end of February.
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Iran reported Sunday 11 new deaths, bringing the official death toll to 54. The BBC’s Farsi service, however, evokes a much heavier toll, at least 210 dead, a figure denied by the authorities.
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