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Below is a snapshot of COVID19 Cases in Greece, Australia and hotspots across the world.

Daily updates and figures are from Worldometer, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and combined media reports.

World Cases

Cases: 219,012
Deaths: 8,953
Recovered: 84,795

Australia and Greece

1. Australia

Total Cases: 564, Deaths: 6 Recovered: 43

• Australia has recorded six deaths and 43 recoveries from Covid-19, with more than 500 confirmed cases still current across the nation.
• 109 new cases in the past 24 hours, with NSW, Victoria and Queensland both recording their highest daily tally of new cases so far.
• All governments Federal and State have called on people to stop panic buying, “we produce enough food for all the main effect of shortages is due to panic buying and disruption to supply lines”. (Source ABC News)
• Medicine sales will be restricted across Australia, travellers to Tasmania will need to quarantine for 14 days, and Wuhan has recorded no new cases of coronavirus for the first time since the outbreak began.
• Qantas and Jetstar have announced that two-thirds of their 30,000 employees will be temporarily stood down from late March until at least the end of May.
• Qantas is suspending all international flights from the later this month and domestic flights have been reduced by 60 per cent (Source ABC News)
• In Australia three times the number of cases have been seen in people in their 30s than in those over 60)
• Most confirmed cases are people in their 50s, followed by those in their 30s.
• Three times as many people in their 50s have been diagnosed with the virus, compared to people in their 70s.
• This gap narrows when the numbers are adjusted for the number of people in each age group, with people in their 50s roughly twice as likely to be among the confirmed cases as those in their 70s.
• Age-specific figures show people in their 50s have the highest infection rates, followed by people in their 60s.
• The proportion of younger people having severe outcomes is small, but that can still scale up to a significant number because of the size of the Covid-19 pandemic, said physician and health reporter Norman Swan on the ABC’s Coronacast.
• “Intensive care units across China and across Italy are full of people who are young. And it’s the young who are dying with no obvious risk factors,” Dr Swan said.

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2. Greece

Total Cases: 418 Deaths: 5 Recovered: 14

• The Greek Health Ministry announced 31 new coronavirus cases have been reported, raising the country’s total to 418.
• In some of the most dangerously overcrowded Greek refugee camps, it has become a race against time to raise awareness about Covid-19 and ensure an outbreak does not spread among an already vulnerable population.
• In the infamous Moria camp on the island of Lesbos close to 20,000 people live in a space designed for just under 3,000
• Twenty-two are said to be domestic, meaning those patients did not travel overseas.
• Fifty-seven patients are currently in hospitals and five are incubated in the Intensive care; eight have been released from hospitals.
• Greece recorded five deaths due to the virus known as Covid-19.
• More than 3,400 samples have been tested. The government suspended all flights to and from Italy.

Other countries

3. Italy

Cases: 35,713 Deaths: 2,978 Recovered: 4,025

• As of 18 March – 4207 new cases and 475 new deaths in Italy. 1084 new recoveries
• Covid-19 has infected 2,629 health workers, or 8.3 per cent of the total (twice the percentage in China), as of yesterday 18 March.
• Over 400 new deaths in one day recorded on 17 March.
• Recovery Rate: by 17 March stands at 54.02 per cent the recovery rate peaked on 2 March to 74.03 per cent
• Death Rate: peaked at 87.5 per cent by 23 February and dropped to 27.42 per cent on 27 February and moved up in 17 March to 45.98 per cent.

4. China

Cases: 80,894 Deaths: 3,237 Recovered: 69,614

• For the first time since the coronavirus outbreak began, no new confirmed cases were reported yesterday in the Chinese province of Hubei or its capital Wuhan, the original epicentre of the global health crisis.
• Li Lanjuan, the director of China’s State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, said the lockdown in the city could be gradually lifted if no new cases were reported for 14 consecutive days
• Recovery Rate: lowest point in 2 Feb of 56.82 per cent of it had by 17 March reached 95.96 per cent.
• Death Rate: 43:18 per cent 2 Feb to it’s lowest March 17 of 4.49 per cent.
• Recovery Rate: highest point was reached 2 March at 48.48 per cent and it’s lowest rate on 16 March of 6.19 per cent.

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5. United States

Cases: 9,413 Deaths: 154 Recovered: 108

• There have been 153 new cases between 16 March and 18 March and four new deaths
• As of 18 March the US has 2846 new cases and no new recoveries.
• Death Rate: has now reached close to 60 per cent, a rise of close to 10 per cent in two days from 16 March.
• Recovery Rate: as of 18 March is at 42 per cent a close to 10 per cent drop since 16 March.
• Trump compared the sacrifices needed to those made during World War II, saying that, “now it is our time, we must sacrifice together. We are all in this together and we’ll come through it together. It is the invisible enemy. That’s always the toughest enemy. But we’re going to defeat the invisible enemy. I think we’ll going to do it even faster than we thought, and it will be a complete victory, a total victory”
• US working to determine if the self-swab coronavirus test is as effective as the other testing process. It would be a much easier test
• All foreclosures and evictions to be suspended until the end of April

Data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control as of 18 March 2020.

Cases have been reported on the following continents:

Africa: Egypt (166), South Africa (85), Algeria (60), Morocco (44), Senegal (31), Tunisia (24), Burkina Faso (20), Cameroon (10), Rwanda (7), Ghana (6), Côte d’Ivoire (5), Ethiopia (5), Kenya (4), Seychelles (4), Democratic Republic of the Congo (3), Nigeria (3), Liberia (2), Namibia (2), Benin (1), Central African Republic (1), Congo (1), Equatorial Guinea (1), Eswatini (1), Gabon (1), Gambia (1), Guinea (1), Mauritania (1), Somalia (1), Sudan (1), Togo (1) and United Republic of Tanzania (1).

Asia: China (81 163), Iran (16 169), South Korea (8 413), Japan (829), Malaysia (673), Qatar (442), Israel (427), Singapore (266), Bahrain (237), Pakistan (187), Philippines (187), Thailand (177), Indonesia (172), Iraq (154), India (137), Saudi Arabia (133), Kuwait (130), Lebanon (120), United Arab Emirates (113), Taiwan (77), Vietnam (61), Brunei Darussalam (56), Sri Lanka (42), Palestine* (41), Jordan (35), Kazakhstan (33), Cambodia (24), Oman (24), Afghanistan (22), Uzbekistan (16), Maldives (13), Bangladesh (8), Mongolia (4), Bhutan (1), Nepal (1) and Myanmar (0).

America: United States (6 427), Canada (569), Brazil (291), Chile (201), Peru (117), Ecuador (111), Mexico (93), Panama (86), Argentina (79), Colombia (65), Costa Rica (50), Uruguay (50), Venezuela (33), Jamaica (13), Bolivia (12), Dominican Republic (11), Paraguay (11), Honduras (9), Cuba (7), Trinidad and Tobago (7), Guatemala (6), Guyana (4), Saint Lucia (2), Antigua and Barbuda (1), Bahamas (1), Barbados (1), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1) and Suriname (1).

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Europe: Italy (31 506), Spain (11 178), France (7 730), Germany (7 156), Switzerland (2 650), United Kingdom (1 950), Netherlands (1 705), Austria (1 332), Norway (1 308), Belgium (1 243), Sweden (1 167), Denmark (1 024), Portugal (448), Czech Republic (434), Greece (387), Finland (319), Ireland (292), Slovenia (275), Iceland (247), Poland (238), Estonia (225), Romania (217), Luxembourg (140), Russia (114), San Marino (104), Turkey (98), Slovakia (97), Bulgaria (81), Armenia (78), Serbia (72), Croatia (69), Latvia (61), Albania (55), Hungary (50), Cyprus (40), Malta (38), Belarus (36), Georgia (34), North Macedonia (31), Moldova (30), Azerbaijan (28), Lithuania (25), Bosnia and Herzegovina (21), Kosovo** (19), Andorra (14), Ukraine (14), Monaco (9), Liechtenstein (7), Montenegro (2) and Holy See (1).

Situation update for the EU/EEA and the UK, as of 18 March 2020
The data presented on this page has been collected between 6:00 and 10:00 CET

As of 18 March 2020, 70 989 cases have been reported in the EU/EEA and the UK: Italy (31 506), Spain (11 178), France (7 730), Germany (7 156), United Kingdom (1 950), Netherlands (1 705), Austria (1 332), Norway (1 308), Belgium (1 243), Sweden (1 167), Denmark (1 024), Portugal (448), Czech Republic (434), Greece (387), Finland (319), Ireland (292), Slovenia (275), Iceland (247), Poland (238), Estonia (225), Romania (217), Luxembourg (140), Slovakia (97), Bulgaria (81), Croatia (69), Latvia (61), Hungary (50), Cyprus (40), Malta (38), Lithuania (25) and Liechtenstein (7).

As of 18 March 2020, 3 309 deaths have been reported in the EU/EEA and the UK: Italy (2 505), Spain (491), France (175), United Kingdom (60), Netherlands (24), Germany (13), Sweden (8), Belgium (5), Greece (5), Poland (5), Denmark (4), Austria (3), Norway (3), Bulgaria (2), Ireland (2), Hungary (1), Luxembourg (1), Portugal (1) and Slovenia (1).