GLOBAL IMAGES: COVID19 PANDEMIC- 12.01.2019 -Day 91: Coronavirus outbreak ‘getting bigger’ after Nigeria case: WHO
A policeman wears surgical gloves and a face mark as he stands at his duty post in Lagos, Nigeria, on Feb 28, 2020.PHOTO: AFP
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Coronavirus outbreak ‘getting bigger’ after Nigeria case: WHO
GENEVA (REUTERS) – The coronavirus outbreak is “getting bigger”, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday (Feb 28) after Nigeria confirmed sub-Saharan Africa’s first case, reiterating its warning that the virus could reach most “if not all countries”.
Five more countries have reported their first case of the Covid-19 virus, all with travel history connected to Italy – Nigeria, Estonia, Denmark, Netherlands and Lithuania – WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier said.
“The outbreak is getting bigger,” Mr Lindmeier told a Geneva news briefing.
“The scenario of the coronavirus reaching multiple countries, if not all countries around the world, is something we have been looking at and warning against since quite a while,” he said.
China has reported nearly 80,000 cases in the two months since the outbreak began in Wuhan in Hubei province, he said.
About 10 per cent are classified as severe, with 2,791 deaths so far, according to the WHO’s latest figures.
Forty-nine countries outside of China have reported 4,351 cases and 67 associated deaths
Mr Lindmeier said the WHO was looking very carefully into reports of some people getting re-infected.
“We need to carefully look at how the tests were taken, how the person was examined, if it was maybe overlooked that the person still had the virus somewhere in the residue in the body, whether they got reinfected by different means or ways,” he said.
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ROME- Italy cases rise to 888, of which 46 have recovered, says official
ROME (REUTERS) – The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Italy rose on Friday (Feb 28) to 888 from 650 the day before, a civil protection official said.
Of the 888 cases, 21 people have died and 46 have recovered, he added, clarifying previous comments which put the total cases at 821, excluding those who had died or recovered.
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