Differentiating COVID-19 Response Strategies
Global Distribution of the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020
By May 4th, 2020 around 3.5 million cases of COVID-19 had been reported outside China, with 62,514 new cases reported on a single day.1 European regions have contributed to more than half of the confirmed cases globally, with reports from Italy, Spain, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland accounting for about 10,000 of these cases by March 28 (Figure 1), thereby making the European region the largest COVID-19 pandemic center. This was very different from the situation on March 14 when Italy was the only European country with over 10,000 cases.1 In addition to Europe, North America has become the second-largest battlefield, and the number of confirmed cases in the United States rapidly increased to 124,739 on March 28.2 Although Iran has also been another epidemic center since early March, development of the disease outbreak in the Eastern Mediterranean Region has been slow and most of Iran's neighboring countries had reported less than 1,000 cases by March 28.
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Liao, H., Zhang, L., Marley, G. and Tang, W. Differentiating COVID-19 Response Strategies. The Innovation 1 (1), 100003 (2020). doi: 10.1016/j.xinn.2020.04.003
