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Old 9th Feb 2020, 09:19
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Originally Posted by Falling Leaf
Saw on the news that India already has 5,000 + diagnosed. That sounds like a bad omen as I imagine their health system in large parts of the country would not be first world.
5123 people were under home surveillance as a precautionary measure for coronavirus. At least 741 tests for nCoV have been done so far. Of these 738 have tested NEGATIVE, and 3 found positive.

that’s from the Indian Economic Times. Admittedly a source I’m not that familiar with but I wouldn’t jump at the idea of 5000 infected there yet. That said, it’s because of countries like India that the WHO declared it of concern.

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