More cases of the coronavirus have now been diagnosed OUTSIDE of China than inside, figures show
More cases of the coronavirus have now been diagnosed outside of China than inside, figures show.
Recorded cases across 152 countries have now reached almost 90,000 compared with China’s 80,900 – more than 8,000 more.
For a long time, China made up the majority of cases, as the deadly bug emerged in the city of Wuhan in December 2019.
But as COVID-19 rapidly spread globally in a matter of weeks, Europe has now become the ‘new epicentre’, the World Health Organisation says.
Italy is nearing 23,000 confirmed cases, making it the worse affected by the disease outside of China, followed by South Korea and Iran.
More cases of the coronavirus have now been diagnosed outside of China than inside
Since COVID-19 was first detected in December, more than 170,400 people have been infected, 80,955 of which are in China.
Coronaivrus cases peaked in China in mid-February, when the country was recording around 3,500 new cases a day. This dramatically slowed, with only 27 new cases recorded yesterday.
Meanwhile, Europe is in the grips of a crisis as cases reach record-breaking levels every day.
Countries have followed draconian measures that successfully curbed the epidemic in China, such as whole-nation lock downs and the closure of schools, transport networks and tourist attractions.