You continue to send us your questions about the coronavirus via the orange Alert us button. Sunday evening, Laura asked us about the state of the epidemic in China. Here is the answer.
“What about the spread of the disease in China? We hear that the rate has dropped or is more or less stable and now we read that it has increased again” wrote Laura Sunday via the orange Alert us button.
The answer to this question is provided by Agence France Presse this Monday morning.
The Covid-19 epidemic appears to be waning in China, where draconian quarantine measures have targeted more than 50 million people. Outside of Hubei province, at the epicenter of the epidemic, a resumption of activity, paralyzed since the end of January, is perceptible in the country, with the reappearance of some traffic jams in Beijing during rush hour.
Authorities announced 42 new deaths on Monday, bringing the country’s disease toll to 2,912. The 202 new cases reported on Monday in mainland China, however, represent the lowest daily figure since the end of January.
Outside china
If the epidemic seems to begin a declining phase in China, it begins only in other countries of the world.
In Italy, some 500 new cases were identified Sunday, a spectacular jump which brings 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.
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 infections, including 22 fatalities.
France, a new acute center of contamination in Europe, lists 130 cases and two deaths.
In the United States, a second death from the virus has been recorded.
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