I have been waking up quite early these days. A couple of days ago I was lucky to get this beautiful and peaceful sunrise.

Talking about exponential growth ... back on the 31st of January, when I heard the novel coronavirus mentioned in the news I blogged about how there were "9776 cases confirmed affecting 20 countries already, with the vast majority in China", regarding this '2019-nCoV' virus as it was known back then.

2.5 months later, this number has jumped to more than 1.5 million cases, becoming a pandemic, affecting most of the nations in the world. Italy and Spain were hard hit, as well as the US, a country that has become by far the new epicenter of this disease.

The strict social distancing rules have slowed down the transmission in the communities adopting these measures (with the unfortunate side effect of paralyzing the economies). Let's cross our fingers that all those efforts will contain this nasty virus.

The COVID-19 cases continue to climb in the world, and the United States of America clearly have become the new epicenter with 85,991 confirmed cases, 18,050 more compared with the previous day. They really need to set up a working national policy!

According to the latest data aggregated by the Johns Hopkins University world cases dashboard, there are 307277 COVID-19 confirmed cases in the world. Europe is still an epicenter of the disease with more than 50k cases in Italy, but also more than 10k cases in France, Germany and Spain.

There are more deaths reported in Italy (4825) than were reported in China (3265). The US has the highest number of active cases (26747) after Italy.

In many places of the world there are measures in place to encourage or force people to stay home. Please stay safe!

According to the WHO, Europe has become the new epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic as the deadly coronavirus runs through Italy and nearby countries including Germany, Switzerland, and France. It's the same situation in Spain where the total number of cases increased dramatically during the last 2 days, leading the government to put in place drastic measures to slow down the transmission of the virus.

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