Anyone at home? As of February 16, some 700 million Chinese people - half the population - were more or less confined to their homes, according to a count made by the New York Times correspondent network. A week later, Saturday February 22, the Italian authorities in Lombardy announced that they had isolated eleven municipalities in the greater suburbs of Milan, a total of 50,000 inhabitants banned from circulation following the death of two adults suffering from the coronavirus. And paradoxically, these 50,000 Lombards have contributed more to the panic that gripped the planet than the 700 million Chinese people fighting for two months against the virus.
Third step, Friday, February 28, WHO, the World Health Organization notes that Covid-19 is already present in 56 countries and suddenly the specialized agency of the United Nations reports to "very high ”the risk of global epidemic, the ultimate degree in its scale.
It is possible that Chinese growth, already undergoing a structural slowdown, but which still reached 6% in 2019, will fall to 1% this year before accelerating sharply in 2021
Éric Chaney, economist of the Montaigne InstituteCertainly, the figures listed by the WHO (87,565 cases declared according to
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