Covid-19 infections growing exponentially, deaths nearing 50 000 worldwide - WHO

Geneva - The head of the World Health Organization voiced deep concern on Wednesday about "the rapid escalation and global spread" of Covid-19 cases from the new coronavirus, which has now reached 205 countries and territories.

"In the past five weeks there has been a near-exponential growth in the number of new cases and the number of deaths has more than doubled in the past week," Tedros told a virtual news conference in Geneva where the UN health organization is based.China, where the coronavirus outbreak first emerged in December, reported dwindling new infections on Wednesday and for the first time disclosed the number of asymptomatic cases, which could complicate how trends in the outbreak are read.

"From data that we have seen from China in particular, we know that individuals who are identified, who are listed as asymptomatic, about 75 percent of those actually go on to develop symptoms," she said, describing them as having been in a "pre-symptomatic phase". The new coronavirus causes the respiratory disease Covid-19.

But it has not had reached Beijing? Is this true and why is that.

Yet South Africa is posting daily decreasing increasing numbers... amazing. 🙄

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