📊 Daily Data Brief: 85,217 cases New cases outside China: 1,069 New Cases in China: 433 Total deaths: 2,924 (3.4% of total cases) Serious or Critical Cases: 7,819 (9.2% of total cases) Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ The focus has markedly moved from China to the rest of the world this week. Global markets have started to tail spin since 1) the first declared cases in Italy last weekend and 2) the number of new daily COVID-19 cases outside China became greater than in China on February 26 (459 versus 412 respectively). That latter trend has continued to accelerate since then.
How did this virus manifest itself? Where did it come from?