The COVID-19 pandemic recently surpassed 300,000 cases, while the death toll is over 13,000. The infection has struck over 120 countries, with the main centres of the outbreak outside China being located in Italy, the United States, Spain, Germany, and Iran.
Current quarantine measures won’t be sufficient to stop the pandemic for good, the World Health Organisation’s top emergency executive Mike Ryan announced on Sunday.
A woman wearing a protective face mask reads a newspaper as she walks in a street on the deserted Ile Saint Louis in Paris as lockdown is imposed to slow the rate of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in France, March 18, 2020.
The majority of new cases have been reported in the United States, and in Italy, where the death toll surpassed the number of deceased in China amid a health crisis in Bergamo and other cities. At the same time, among the 300,000 infected almost 100,000 have recovered from the disease. To curb the infection, numerous countries have introduced travel bans, also urging their citizens returning from abroad to quarantine themselves for two weeks.
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