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Coronavirus Live Updates: New Cases Light Up the Map as Nations Brace for Outbreaks
The virus sweeps the globe, with cases in at least 47 countries.The fight to contain the coronavirus entered an alarming new phase on Thursday as caseloads soared in Europe and the Middle East, and health officials in the United States and Germany dealt with patients with no known connection to others with the infection.
The German and American cases raised the possibility that the virus could have begun to spread locally, or that infected people had spread it to others sequentially, making it virtually impossible to trace and isolate the origins.
Either way, the cases, thousands of miles apart, underscored how quickly the virus was making its way around the globe after emerging in China.
“We have before us a crisis, an epidemic that is coming,” President Emmanuel Macron of France said on Thursday. “We are going to have to confront it as best we can.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/coronavirus-live-updates-new-cases-light-up-the-map-as-nations-brace-for-outbreaks/ar-BB10s9IP?li=BBnb7Kz
