CORONAVIRUS | For the first time, the number of new cases in China overtaken by fresh cases elsewhere.
| The number of new coronavirus infections inside China - the source of the outbreak - was for the first time overtaken by fresh cases elsewhere yesterday, with Italy and Iran emerging as epicentres of the rapidly spreading illness.
It was one of just a handful of times that the president has appeared in the White House briefing room. The virus that can lead to pneumonia is believed to have originated in a market selling wildlife in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year. It has infected about 80,000 people and killed more than 2,700, the vast majority in China.
However, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus advised diplomats in Geneva yesterday against speaking of a pandemic - which the WHO defines as the worldwide spread of a new disease.
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