South Korea recorded the largest number of new infections daily in Koruna since the virus began to appear, exceeding 3,000 cases after its authorities announced 813 new infections, while the Ministry of Health in Iran announced nine new deaths, and the rise in infections, raising the outcome to 43 deaths and 593 infection.

In detail, the virus globally infected 85,000 people, including more than 2,900 people, including 79,000 infected in China, where 2,835 people have died so far.

Yesterday, in South Korea, the country that recorded the largest spread of the virus after China, counted 813 additional cases, the highest number of daily infections so far in this country, for a total of 3,150 cases, of whom 16 died. In a disturbing sign, the country recorded the first case of re-infection, a 73-year-old woman, who was confirmed to have re-infected after recovering from it. This comes, while the WHO has raised the risk of the virus spreading to the world to a "higher level", and has called on all countries that have not yet recorded infections to prepare for the arrival of the virus, warning that they will make a "fatal mistake" if they think it is immune from it.

After the first HIV infection was recorded in Latin America in Brazil, Mexico announced three cases of people who had traveled to Italy, the European country most affected by the virus.

Nigeria also became the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to register an injury after the discovery of an Italian case who returned to the country from Milan on February 25.

In China, where the new virus appeared in December, the number of deaths and injuries continues to decline gradually thanks to quarantine measures that have covered more than 50 million people.

In Iran, BBC Radio 5 reported that at least 210 people died in Iran due to the virus, most of them in Tehran and Qom. Ministry of Health spokesman Kyanosh Jahanpur denied the figures. The official toll announced in Tehran until Saturday is nine new deaths, bringing the number to 43 and 205 new infections, bringing the total number of infections to 593. In Italy, the virus has so far infected nearly 900 people, including 21 deaths. Rome has taken drastic measures to deter the spread of the virus on its soil, including closing schools, canceling sporting and cultural events, and quarantining 11 towns in the north. Meanwhile, three unidentified injuries were reported in the United States. Sixty-two injuries were counted in this country, with no deaths reported, President Donald Trump said Friday.

Washington has indefinitely postponed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit, which was scheduled for March in Las Vegas, for fear of the epidemic. In New York, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed that "the time is not a time of panic but a time of fully preparedness" to contain the outbreak of the new Corona virus.

In Paris, the French government banned yesterday the mass gatherings in which more than 5,000 people participated due to the outbreak of the Corona virus, with France declaring 16 new cases. In addition, Qatar announced yesterday that it recorded the first infection with the emerging corona virus with a person returning from Iran. The Qatari Ministry of Health said that the injured man is a 36-year-old Qatari, who is one of the citizens whom the state "evacuated on a private plane from Iran and those who were subjected to quarantine" upon their arrival in Doha on Thursday. The ministry began "examining all close contacts of the patient and implementing appropriate quarantine measures," according to the Qatar News Agency.

• France prohibits any gatherings of more than 5,000 people because of Corona.

• In Italy, the virus has infected about 900 people, including 21 deaths.