Korean coronavirus cases spike again

David Llewellyn-Smith

Thursday, 20 February 2020

South Korea is a sudden COVID-19 hotspot with the KCDC just reporting 51 news cases today to hit 82 in total.

Total transmissions outside China are looking a little rampy:

Still doubling every six days, five days including Diamond Princess:

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About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.