Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Report - 36 (World Health Organization)

[steve2470]

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200225-sitrep-36-covid-19.pdf?sfvrsn=2791b4e0_2

Data as reported by 10AM CET 25 February 2020*

HIGHLIGHTS

• Four new Member States (Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iraq, and Oman) reported
cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.

• For healthcare workers and public health professionals, WHO has an online
course titled Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) for Novel Coronavirus
(COVID-19). You can access the course through the following link:
https://openwho.org/courses/COVID-19-IPC-EN. This course provides
information on what facilities should be doing to prepare to respond to a case
of an emerging respiratory virus such as the novel coronavirus.

• The WHO-China joint mission concluded on 24 February. The team has made
a range of findings about the transmissibility of the virus, the severity of
disease and the impact of the measures taken. Please see here for more
information regarding the findings of the mission.

• A joint WHO and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
mission arrived in Italy on 24 February to support Italian authorities on the
COVID-19 situation. More information can be found here.

[Iliyah]

1. It is spreading quite quickly . .

[Squinch]

2. Doubling every 6 days. That's very, very fast.