One month ago I was blogging about how the 2019-nCoV coronavirus had been in the news lately because of its human-to-human transmission and its rapid spread both in China and outside its borders.

At the end of January there were 9776 confirmed cases in China, but one month later this number was around 80k, and Iran, South Korea, and Italy had become additional hotspots with more than 1k cases.

The COVID-19 virus, as it's called now, is a public issue all around the world, and preventive measures will have to be in place to slow down the spread of this disease.

The following animation from Wikipedia shows how fast the virus has spread in a couple of months.

Again, for reference, this is the Johns Hopkins University world cases dashboard, using the most recent data available.