By Josh Smith and Jeff Mason
By Josh Smith and Jeff Mason
SEOUL/WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) – America and South Korea postponed joint army drills on Thursday to restrict the unfold of coronavirus, because the variety of infections inside China – the supply of the outbreak – was for the primary time overtaken by contemporary instances elsewhere.
Brazil confirmed Latin America’s first an infection and the brand new illness – COVID-19 – was additionally detected for the primary time in Pakistan, Sweden, Norway, Greece, Romania and Algeria. China reported 433 new instances on Thursday, in opposition to 406 a day earlier.
U.S. well being authorities reported the primary doable case of neighborhood transmission in the US involving somebody who had no related journey historical past or publicity to a different recognized affected person.
U.S. President Donald Trump, looking for to calm U.S. inventory markets which fell for the fifth consecutive day, mentioned the US was “very very prepared” to face the virus menace.
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