The acceleration is striking. Wednesday, March 11, after several weeks of efforts to try to contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) was resigned to declare a pandemic. The majority of the 110,000 cases identified since the detection of the virus at the end of December in Wuhan was then located in China and South Asia. Eight days later, there are 220,000 people infected and more than 9000 dead across 157 countries, and Europe has become the epicenter of the disease.
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On Wednesday evening, Italy declared having recorded 475 deaths during the past day - which marks the heaviest daily toll recorded by a country since the emergence of the virus. Spain, also hit hard, has nearly 800 deaths. Chinese authorities said on Thursday that they had not detected any new cases of indigenous infection during the past twenty-four hours.
Worrisome epidemiological black holes
This spectacular changeover is probably only one step
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