As China reports fall in coronavirus cases, South Korea faces jump in viral infections
An Iraqi medical staff checks passengers' temperature, amid the new coronavirus outbreak, upon their arrival at Najaf airport, Iraq February 21, 2020.
But the number of infections continued to rise elsewhere, with outbreaks worsening in South Korea, Italy and Iran and Lebanon. The World Health Organisation warned that the window of opportunity to contain the international spread was closing. "We still have a chance to contain it," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, said on Friday.An outbreak in northern Italy worsened, with its first death, an elderly man, among 17 confirmed cases including its first known instance of local transmission.
Chen Yulu, a deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, said policymakers had plenty of tools to support the economy, and that they were fully confident of winning the war against the epidemic, according to China Central Television . Transportation restrictions remain in place in large parts of the country. While more firms are reopening, the limited data available so far suggests manufacturing is still running at levels far below those in the same period last year, and disruptions are starting to spillover into global supply chains as far away as the United States.
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