Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 reported cases March 9, 2020
The spread of the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 is slowing down in mainland China, while it is picking up elsewhere. It has reached every continent except Antarctica.
According to Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center’s monitoring, let’s take a look at the number of cases of the 20 countries with the most reported cases:
- 80.735 Mainland China
- 7.478 South Korea
- 7.375 Italy
- 7.161 Iran
- 1.209 France
- 1.151 Germany
- 979 Spain
- 566 USA
- 511 Japan
- 374 Switzerland
- 280 UK
- 265 Netherlands
- 239 Belgium
- 203 Sweden
- 176 Norway
- 150 Singapore
- 132 Canada
- 117 Malaysia
- 115 Hong Kong
- 112 Austria
It is particularly bizarre that Turkey has not reported not even a single case of coronavirus, although Turkey has borders and many commercial relations, transports and exchanges with Iran, which is the 4th country in reported cases of coronavirus and the 3rd in deaths. For this reason, many analysts consider Turkey unreliable in this matter of healthcare and many questions arise in relation to other data of Turkey’s healthcare system that are occasionally presented.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus put out a statement Thursday aimed at aware some countries to take seriously the coronavirus. “We are calling on every country to act with speed, scale and clear-minded determination.” He went on to say, “We’re concerned that some countries have either not taken this seriously enough, or have decided there’s nothing they can do. We are concerned that in some countries the level of political commitment and the actions that demonstrate that commitment do not match the level of the threat we all face.”
The solution, he said, is “aggressive preparedness” emphasizing that “This epidemic can be pushed back, but only with a collective, coordinated and comprehensive approach that engages the entire machinery of government.”
Epameinondas Christopoulos, MD, MTEC
Med Elite
Athens, Greece
