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Now's your chance to add to the ILI data in addition to all the discussion.

I would guess they will be asking us about Covid-19 again before long.
Roger

That'll happen when you stop testing .

Coincidentally another situation where it happens is one in which there have been no new cases.

R.

Amazing so many of you on here believe the Chinese Communist Party. 

I prefer to “believe” in the scientific and verifiable evidence not the evidence-free hearsay or social media rumours and conspiracy theory - namely the medical experts, epidemiologists etc. If you want to resorts to silly accusations go ahead  but it won’t change my approach and more importantly neither my take on things nor yours will change the reality. However for clarity my analysis is nothing to do with the “Chinese Communist Party”.

There also the Olympics in Japan this year

So in your view 5 new cases in mainland China (Outside Hubei) today seem realistic? Population 1.4 billion.  There were 4 today in one Tenerife hotel room.

Yes its crappy timing for sports fans hopefully they can go ahead but huge doubt at the moment. 

Well I choose not to make up my own facts, that’s all.

I'm not making anything up I just don't think that those numbers are realistic. 

843 new cases today, 2400 resolved. Looks good to me

As with Brexit, I think you are affected too much by the media.

Again the growth of the cases are far more important than the raw numbers. We have out of control exponential increaes in Iran at the very least but probably in other parts of the world too.

I don't think it will be the death toll which will be the story here hopefully not anyway.  But the disruption to normal life. Where already losing major sporting events . If we lose the Euros that alone would be massive news. A major European outbreak seems inevitable at the moment but its a very difficult virus to predict. 

The number of new cases is trending downwards so it is not growing. You also have no idea what is going on in Iran so once again all you are spouting is speculation.

No. The total is trending downwards but that is only because China has this under control.

Iran is completely out of control. Tens of thousands of people are projected, by models, to have it.

We can't be far off a pandemic now.

Confirmed cases.

Source of infection unconfirmed.

The number of coronavirus cases in Italy has jumped to 400, according to BBC.

Growth doesn't quite look exponential, that's the good news.