These are thursdays official (AP) figures.
Mainland China: 2,118 deaths among 74,576 cases, mostly in the central province of Hubei
Hong Kong: 65 cases, 2 deaths
Macao: 10
Japan: 727 cases, including 634 from a cruise ship docked in Yokohama, 3 deaths
Singapore: 84
South Korea: 51, 1 death
Thailand: 35
Taiwan: 24 cases, 1 death
Malaysia: 22
Vietnam: 16
Germany: 16
United States: 15 cases; separately, 1 U.S. citizen died in China
Australia: 14
France: 12 cases, 1 death
United Kingdom: 9
United Arab Emirates: 9
Canada: 8
Iran: 5 cases, 2 deaths
Philippines: 3 cases, 1 death
India: 3
Italy: 3
Russia: 2
Spain: 2
Belgium: 1
Nepal: 1
Sri Lanka: 1
Sweden: 1
Cambodia: 1
Finland: 1
Egypt: 1

There seem to be two attitudes, play it down so as not to spark a panic, or play it up to gain different sorts of advantages. The “ups” include Senator Cotton in the US (blame China, regime change?), and the WHO and Bill Gates (billions of cases, with the possible “aim” of getting more money to “fight it”). The “Downs” are the Chinese themselves (and their 1’600 internet trolls to “correct” bad impressions) or reasonable bloggers (Moon of Alabama, who has written some very clear posts deflating the panic mode.) The latter is sensible in the present situation.

I should add that Qom in Iran is now on military lockdown with a reported 9 cases, (from 2 Chinese tourists) which doesn’t help calm the nerves.

Your post on Ethiopia as another possible source of infection, is a problem in that one person can infect many others (One person is thought to have infected 57 others when admitting himself to hospital for a stomach problem. The infected include the surgical operating team, the others in the ward, nurses etc.).
The incubation is between 3 to 24 days.
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Long time since I posted here. In those days I was “British” but have since changed to “Irish”, so I’m looking forward to you saying something about the EU(-xit?), and now that there is €60 billion less in the kitty, who is going to pay the difference?

Nice to see you again

Thank you for a fascinating and alarming read. In response to the link I posted to it on Twitter, @BankOfIsland sent me the following:
https://reliefweb.int/report/ethiopia/ethiopia-stepping-readiness-coronavirus-disease-outbreak

Jonathan

#viralhiv

Battelle memorial institute

The reported restriction of this virus to ethnic Chinese is quite astounding and points to a trial run of a targeted bioweapon. Several US labs are specialised in this area and, no doubt keen to test their experiments.

Together with the swine and chicken attacks, this smacks of a biological war.

No need for us all to fall out. Thank you, all of you. First, I am grateful, to Don and anyone who points out where I have got things wrong. The whole point of writing here is to offer thoughts and be clear. If I get things wrong I am happy to alter them.

As for being a snowflake, that made me laugh. Maybe I was overly sensitive. It can happen. My main point was that I value politeness.

I take the author quite seriously,
and thought his response to the arrogant prick was overly compassionate.

Perhaps – in between dispensng your helpful but unsought advice to the guy – on how to behave on his own website, you might consider the virtues of silence as a path to real wisdom.