Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 28th: ​​Xinhua News Agency reporters abroad report: Recently, the new crown virus epidemic continued to spread in many countries, and the number of confirmed cases in South Korea, Japan, Iran, Italy and other countries increased. Infected persons, many countries have adopted epidemic prevention measures to strengthen the response.

According to data released by the South Korean Disease Management Division on the 28th, from 9:00 to 16:00 local time on the 28th, South Korea added 315 new cases of New Coronavirus infection, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases increased to 2,337. The collection of test samples for 1,299 members of a church in Daegu with related symptoms has been completed, and the test results will be available this weekend.

Japan added 14 new crown virus infections, including 12 from Hokkaido, 1 from Kanagawa Prefecture, and 1 from Shizuoka Prefecture. Shizuoka Prefecture was the first person to be infected. This male was a passenger who boarded and disembarked aboard the "Diamond Princess" cruise ship. At present, including 705 cruise passenger crew members, a total of 933 people have been diagnosed with infection in Japan, and 20 prefectures and counties have been infected with the new crown virus. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe demanded that Japanese elementary and junior high schools temporarily suspend classes from March 2 until the spring break.

As of the 27th, all the passengers and some crew members of the "Diamond Princess" cruise ship had disembarked and continued to conduct isolation observation. About 150 crew members are still on board and will disembark in the next few days.

In addition, Malaysia confirmed a case of New Coronavirus infection with a history of travel in Japan on the 27th, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 23.

According to data released by WHO, Iran has the highest number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the Eastern Mediterranean. Iran ’s vice president of women and family affairs, Masumei Ebqar, and Chairman of Iran ’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Mujtababa Zonour, were diagnosed with the new crown virus on the 27th. As of the morning of the 27th, the number of Iranian crown virus infections rose to 245, and 26 deaths.

In addition, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Lebanon, and Israel added 6 new cases, 2 new cases, 1 new case, and 1 new confirmed case of New Coronavirus infection respectively on the 27th local time. Cases have a history of travel in Italy.

In Europe, as of 18:00 local time on the 27th, the number of confirmed infections in the country announced by the Italian Civil Defense Department reached 650, an increase of 250 from the 26th.

French Minister of Health Olivier Velan said on the 27th that France has added 20 new cases of coronavirus infection in the past 24 hours, with a total of 38 cases. Twelve new confirmed cases were diagnosed in the Oise department in northern Paris, three of them from a military base.

The Spanish health department informed on the 27th that the country had 12 new confirmed cases that day, a total of 25 confirmed cases, of which 3 were local infection cases. In addition, of the seven new cases that day in Valencia, one was a sports reporter who went to Milan to cover the Champions League football match last week.

Three new cases of new coronavirus infections were confirmed in Austria on the 27th, all in the capital Vienna. One of the infected persons had no previous travel history in high-endemic areas. So far, the number of confirmed cases in Austria has increased to five.

At the same time, Britain and Greece also added two new confirmed cases on the 27th, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in these two countries to 15 and 3 respectively. In addition, one new confirmed case in Georgia has a history of travel to Italy.

On the 27th and 28th, another country reported the first confirmed case of new crown virus infection in the country, including the Netherlands, Lithuania, Nigeria, Belarus, New Zealand and Mexico.

In view of the increasing number of cases, a number of European countries have recently held special meetings to discuss new crown virus infection prevention and control measures.

The German government announced on the 27th that the Federal Ministry of Health and the Ministry of the Interior jointly set up a command to deal with the new crown virus crisis. It is understood that the crisis command will require airlines, passenger ships, cross-border railways, long-distance bus companies, etc. to register personal and journey information of passengers for future retrospective contact. In Germany, 20 new cases of new coronavirus infection were newly confirmed that day, and a total of 46 were confirmed.

The Finnish government also issued a communiqué on the 27th that the government has set up a coordination group to be responsible for the prevention of new crown pneumonia and has initially invested 8.9 million euros in epidemic prevention. There are currently two confirmed cases in Finland.

The Russian Ministry of Transport announced on the 27th that in order to prevent the spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, it will restrict air transportation with Iran and South Korea and rail transportation with France. As of the 27th, a total of five new crown virus infections have been reported in Russia, two of them have recovered. (Participating reporters: Lu Rui, Geng Xuepeng, Hua Yi, Guo Dan, Lin Hao, Guan Jianwu, Nuran, Su Xiaopo, Zhang Miao, Li Liangyong, Wu Danni, Pan Geping, Liu Yang, Chen Wenxian, Shang Hao, Zhu Haochen, Xu Qian, Yu Shuaishuai , Chen Chen, Zhang Jiawei, Yu Tao, Li Jie, Zhang Yirong, Xie Yuzhi, Guo Jun, Xu Zheng, Lu Huaiqian, Guo Lei, Guo Mingfang, Wei Zhongjie, Li Ming, Zhao Kai)