Heads need to be rolling.
Summary:
• Italy confirms second death, 12 towns on lockdown, more than 50 cases confirmed
• Japan cases triple in a week to 121
• Chinese scientists find virus in urine
• Experts propose 27 day quarantine, say 14 days likely not long enough
• Cases outside China go exponential
• WHO team visits Wuhan; will give Monday press conference
• Iran reports 10 new cases, deaths climb to 5
• San Diego says 200 under 'medical observation'
• Young woman infected five relatives without ever showing symptoms
• South Korea cases surge 8-fold in 4 days to 433; country reports third death
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When WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros was asked on Thursday whether the COVID-19 virus was at a tipping point, he replied that the window to stop the outbreak from growing exponentially worse was rapidly closing.
Though by Friday night, it certainly seemed like that window had slammed shut. In South Korea, cases went exponential, soaring by 70% in one day.:
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