On 8 March, officials locked down all of Lombardy region, including Milan, and Parma, Piacenza, Rimini, Reggio-Emilia, Modena, Pesaro and Urbino, Venice, Padua, Treviso, Alessandria, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Novara, Vercelli and Asti provinces in Veneto, Marche, Emilia-Romagna and Piedmont regions.
In 2019, Global Guardian published its inaugural Global Risk Assessment Map. Here, we take a look at some key changes and continuities for 2020. To download the full map, click here.
On 05 March, the South Korean government declared Gyeongsan in North Gyeongsang Province, which borders Daegu, as a new 'Special Care Zone', given the steep rise in COVID-19 infections in the area.
On 04 March, the Italian government announced that all schools and universities nationwide would be closed for two weeks in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19.
Over the weekend, total cases surged in South Korea (4,335), Italy (2,036), and Iran (1,501) as authorities scrambled to contain the outbreak.
In the last 48 hours, new cases have been reported in Mexico, Estonia, Romania, New Zealand, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Denmark, Netherlands, San Marino, Norway, North Ireland, and Georgia.
In the last 48 hours, new cases have been reported in Spain, Brazil, Algeria, Switzerland, Croatia, Lebanon, Pakistan, Greece, and North Macedonia.
Over the weekend, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Level 2 alert for both Japan and South Korea amid a surge in cases of the novel coronavirus.
South Korea witnessed a spike in confirmed cases over the last 48 hours, from 50 to over 200. The latest outbreak is tied to a secretive church whose members account for a majority of the new infections in the country.
As the total worldwide case count broke 75,000 on 19 February, Russia announced it was temporarily banning entry of all Chinese citizens into the country due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
