The new coronavirus, COVID-19, which originated in China, has now spread to least 47 countries, infecting over 81,000 people and killing 3,000 people, with the majority of them in China.
A report released by the World Health Organisation on February 25, 2020, says "for the first time, since the onset of symptoms of the first identified case of COVID-19 on December 8, 2019, there have been more new cases reported from countries outside of China than from China."
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