Coronavirus Cases:

Deaths:

•  9 new cases and 1 death in the United States:
  1 new case in Oregon: a contact of the first case in Oregon, recovering at home. [source]
  2 new cases (first) in Florida
  1 new case in Washington State: a man in his 40s hospitalized in critical condition in Kirkland. [source]
  4 cases and 1 death in Washington State: a man in his 70s, in Kirkland, King County, with underlying health conditions. [source]
  1 case (first) in New York [source]

• 476 new cases and 1 death in South Korea. [source]

• 202 new cases, 42 new deaths (all in Hubei) and 2,837 new discharges occurred in China on March 1, as reported by the National Health Commission (NHC) of China. [source]

•  7 new cases and 1 death in San Marino: a 88-year-old man who was hospitalized in Rimini since Feb. 25 [source]

• 51 new cases in Germany, including the first in Berlin [source] [source]

• 1 new case in Denmark: a close contact of the previously confirmed case of a man who had returned from a skiing holiday in Northern Italy on Feb. 15 and became ill with cough and fever on Feb. 18. The man called his physician on Feb. 27 - nine days after the first symptoms - and was then referred to Rigshospitalet, where a throat swab confirmed that the person was infected. [source]

• 26 new cases in Spain for a total of 84 cases, of which 5 in critical condition. [source]

•  1st case in Scotland (UK) a "resident of the Tayside area and has recently travelled from northern Italy" [source]

• 12 other new cases in the UK [source]
  - 6 had traveled to Italy
  - 2 had traveled to Iran
  - 3 are close contacts of a known case
  - 1 (in Essex) has no travel history and no clear link to cases. Being investigated.

• 30 new cases in France. Among the 114 active cases, 9 (8%) are in critical condition. Among the 14 closed cases, the outcome has been: 12 discharged (86%) and 2 deaths (14%).
  - Schools closed in 9 Oise municipalities (where there are 47 cases)
  - French authorities invite to "postpone non-essential trips outside the EU"
  "In terms of distribution, 72 are part of a chain of transmission or a cluster, 35 are returning from areas abroad where the virus is circulating, 23 recent cases are under investigation, 7 have been detected by the systematic test for severe pneumonia or acute respiratory distress," said Jérôme Salomon, Director of Health. [source]
  

•  573 new cases and 12 new deaths in Italy, for a total of 1,701 cases. Among the 1,577 active cases, 779 (49%) are hospitalized, 140 of which (representing 9% of active cases) are in intensive care. Among the 124 closed cases, 83 (67%) have recovered, 41 (33%) have died. The number of deaths reported in the press conference [source] [source] was later rectified from 34 to 41 (31 in Lombardy, 8 in Emilia Romagna, and 2 in Veneto), when Lombardy's councilor corrected the initial report of 24 deaths to 31 deaths for Lombardy. [source] [source] The total number of cases has been adjusted as well, to reflect this correction.

• 1 new case in Iceland: a man in his 60s who arrived from Verona, Italy, yesterday with Icelandair. [source]

• 5 new cases in Finland: including an elderly person and a school-aged child, both related to a previous case who had travelled to northern Italy [source] [source]

•  First 3 cases in Czech Republic. They had all recently traveled to Northern Italy: [source]
  




• A 67-year-old man who attended a conference at the University of Udine, Italy, where the infection was confirmed in one of his Italian colleagues. He is now hospitalized in Bulovka, Prague.

• A 20 year old woman from the USA who studies in Milan and was staying at an Airbnb in Prague. According to the Prime Minister, "She went to the hospital herself and we don't want that," Babis said.

• a 43-year-old Czech national in Prague who returned from a ski holiday in Auronzo di Cadore in Veneto, Italy, a risky region. He traveled by car with his wife and four children, who are still asymptomatic but have been placed in home quarantine.

• 3 new cases in the Netherlands

• 1 new case in Belgium [source]

• 4 new cases in Austria [source] [source]

• 2 new cases in Norway [source]

UK: Coronavirus outbreak could force UK to shut down entire cities, health secretary admits. He also said a research paper suggesting half a million people in the UK could die in the event of a flu pandemic was a “reasonable worst-case scenario.”

American Airlines has announced it is suspending flights to and from Milan, Italy from both New York and Miami from March 1, 2020 until April 25, 2020, citing reduced demand. The announcement comes only hours after the U.S. State Department said it was raising its travel warning to Level 4: Do Not Travel for parts of Italy due to the coronavirus outbreak. [source]

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• 3 new cases in Israel.

• 2 new cases in Qatar: they had both been evacuated from Iran on Feb. 27 [source]

• 6 new cases in Bahrain: 3 female Bahraini nationals, 2 male Bahraini nationals and 1 male Saudi national, arriving at Bahrain International Airport via indirect flights from Iran. [source]

• 6 new cases in Iraq: 2 in Baghdad, 4 in Sulaimaniya. They had all recently traveled to Iran. [source]

• 3 new cases in Lebanon, all three had visited Iran.

•  1st case in Armenia [source]

• 1 new case in Kuwait

•  385 new cases and 11 new deaths in Iran [source]
  

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• 1 new case in Egypt: a foreigner citizen.

• 3 new cases in Algeria: [source] [source]
  2: a woman and her daughter aged 53 and 24 years respectively.
  1: An Italian citizen On Saturday, it was reported that another Italian national who tested positive for coronavirus on his arrival in Algeria had been transferred to his home country. [source] This came after Algeria announced on Tuesday that the 61-year-old Italian man, who works in projects involving Milan-based energy firm Eni, had become its first confirmed case of the virus.

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• 4 new cases in Canada (Ontario)

• 1 new case in Ecuador

• 5 new cases in the United States:
  2 in Washington State (bringing the total in King County to 6) both are in their 60s and in critical condition.
  1 in Rhode Island: a man in his 40s who had traveled to Italy in mid-February. He is a member of the community of Saint Raphael Academy in Pawtucket. [source]
  1 in illinois [source]
  1 in California (third in Santa Clara County) [source]

• 1 new case in Mexico: first in Chiapas, a student who had traveled to Italy. [source]

•  1st case in the Dominican Republic, a 62-year old Italian citizen who entered the country on February 22nd. [source]
  

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•  1st death in Australia: a 78-year-old man in Perth who was among the 164 Australians flown out of Japan after being quarantined aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship. His wife also tested positive to the virus and is currently in a stable condition in isolation at a Perth hospital.
  
  29 cases in Australia of which: [source]

  9 in Queensland
  6 in New South Wales
  9 in Victoria
  3 in South Australia
  2 in Western Australia

  15 have recovered
  10 are associated with the Diamond princess cruise ship
  9 are receiving medical treatment at home
  1 death
  
  Incoming travel from Iran to Australia is banned starting Sunday. Appropriate level of travel advisory to Italy is being considered. But "it's not possible to further isolate Australia," said Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy, adding that the focus should be on detection and containment instead. [source]

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• 4 new cases and 2 new discharges in Singapore. [source]

•  1 new death in Thailand

• 4 new cases in Malaysia: nurse among infected. [source]

• 26 new cases and 1 new death in Japan: a man in his 70s in the Kushiro district in Hokkaido [source] [source]

• 1 new case and 3 new discharges in Taiwan

• 586 new cases, and 3 new deaths in South Korea. [source] [source] [source] [source]

• 573 new cases, 35 new deaths (of which 34 in Hubei) and 2,623 new discharges occurred in China on Feb. 29, as reported by the National Health Commission (NHC) of China. [source]
  

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• 1 new case in Mexico: a man who had traveled to Northern Italy with 2 previously confirmed cases [source]

• 5 new cases in Canada including: [source]
  - a woman in York Region, 34, who had just returned from Iran
  - a woman in Durham region, 51, who had just returned from Iran, and her husband, 69
  - a man, always in Ontario, in his 80s with a travel history to Egypt

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•  1st case in Ireland: a man in the eastern part of the country who "returned from northern Italy, had symptoms, identified himself, was brought to hospital and confirmed as a positive case for coronavirus.” [source]

• 5 new cases in the Netherlands:
  - 1: a woman in Delft who was in Lombardy, Italy last week [source]
  - 2: daughter and wife of the patient hospitalized in Tilburg who recently visited Lombardy, Italy. [source]
  - 2: the "partner and the youngest child of the patient who is in home isolation in Diemen" [source]

•  1st case in Luxembourg: a man around the age of 40 who returned from Italy through Charleroi last week with his family. He is doing well. Family members (with no symptoms) have been placed in quarantine. Contact tracing (to isolate his contacts) is being performed. [source]

• 25 new cases in Spain [source]
  Current distribution and new cases today (+):
  
  15 in the Valencia area (+7)
  10 in Madrid (+5)
  10 in Andalusia (+4)
  6 in Catalonia (+3)
  7 in the Canary Islands (+1)
  2 in Castile and León
  3 in the Basque Country (+1)
  2 in the Balearic Islands (+1)
  1 in Asturia (+ 1)
  1 in Cantabria (+1)
  1 in Navarra (+1)
  0 in Aragon (previous confirmation retracted [source] )
  
  New cases include:
  - a woman in Majorca
  - a 52-year-old woman in Girona who had recently traveled to Italy
  - man in Sant Cugat del Vallès (north of Barcelona) "who was in intimate contact with one of the previously confirmed cases" as reported by health authorities.
  

•  239 new cases and 8 new deaths in Italy. Among the 1,049 active cases, 401 (38%) are hospitalized, and 105 (10%) are in intensive care. Among the 79 closed cases, 50 (63%) have recovered, 29 (37%) have died. [source] [source]

•  43 new cases in France bringing the total in the country to 100. New cases include: [source] [source]
  3 health workers at the Tenon Hospital in Paris who were contaminated by a patient who is in intensive care since Feb. 21. [source]
  “All public gatherings of more than 5,000 people in a confined space are temporarily banned across France,” Health Minister Olivier Veran told journalists. The Paris half-marathon scheduled for Sunday, March 1 has been cancelled as a consequence.

• 8 new cases in Norway, bringing the total to 15 in the country. Among the new cases, 4 are in Bergen and 3 are employees of the Ullevål University Hospital in Oslo. The authorities know the source of contagion for all 15 cases which are all linked to outbreaks abroad. [source]

• 10 new cases in Switzerland, of which:
  4 in the circle of the two children of an Italian family in Graubünden who tested positive last week. [source]
  

  
  

• 1 new case in Croatia

• 3 new cases in the U.K: 2 had recently traveled to Italy, 1 to Asia. [source]
  -- 1 in Gloucestershire
  - 1 in Berkshire
  - 1 in Hertfordshire

• 1 new case in Georgia: a Georgian citizen who, having returned from Iran and showing high fever, was immediately taken to Tbilisi Infectious Hospital from the border checkpoint. [source]

• 1 new case in Sweden, bringing the total to 12 in the country: 5 in Västra Götaland, 3 in the Stockholm region, 2 in the Jönköping Region, 2 in the Uppsala Region.

• 1 new case in Norway: an employee at the eye department at Ullevål University Hospital in Oslo, as tests were conducted on 4 staff members with symptoms after that, on Feb. 28, Covid-19 infection was confirmed in a staff member who had traveled to Northern Italy, showed symptoms on Sunday but still went to work on Monday and Tuesday. [source]

• 1 new case in Denmark: an employee at the Aarhus University Hospital in northern Denmark. [source]

• 5 new cases in Germany.
  - Feb. 20: Italy's outbreak begins.
  - Feb. 26: “We are at the beginning of a coronavirus epidemic in Germany,” said German Health Minister Jens Spahn, adding that infection chains can no longer be tracked in Germany [source] . The German government saw no need to advise its citizens against travel to Italy [source]
  - Feb. 28: German government announced that travelers arriving from South Korea, Japan, Italy and Iran must declare their health status upon arrival. Passengers from China were already required to do so.

• 3 new cases in Austria, (where 1,649 tests were done, with 10, or 0.6%, testing positive) [source] including a couple from the Korneuburg district in Lower Austria. The woman is now hospitalized, the man is isolated at home.
  

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