China has recorded a decrease in the number of new infections with the emerging coronavirus, while the spread of the epidemic is accelerating in the rest of the world, as the European Union raises the level of its resulting risk and increases the number of cases in the United States that have remained relatively free from the disease so far.

A few days ago, signs were emerging of a decline in the epidemic in China, where over 50 million people have been severely quarantined since the end of January.

However, eastern Xinjiang Province announced that seven Chinese people returning from Italy are carrying the virus, adding to fears that the disease will be imported again from abroad.

Nationally, the authorities counted Tuesday 125 new infections, the lowest daily toll since January 21, before quarantining the city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the virus.

According to figures from the Chinese authorities, the new corona virus caused the death of an additional 31 patients, all in Hubei Province, whose capital is Wuhan, raising the total toll in China to 2,943 deaths.

The impact of the epidemic, on Monday, exceeded 3000 deaths in the world, while its spread is accelerating outside China.

In South Korea, which records the second highest toll after China, the total number of injuries on Tuesday approached 5,000, as the authorities announced 477 new injuries, and two additional patients were reported dead, bringing the number of deaths to 28.

As for Saudi Arabia, which was until now the only one among the Gulf countries that did not record any infection on its soil, the two reported a first infection with a newborn corona by a person returning from Iran, where the death toll from the virus reached 66, the highest after China.

The Canadian health authorities asked the two travelers from Iran to voluntarily isolate themselves in their homes for 14 days even if they did not show any symptoms of the disease, and also advised Canadian citizens to avoid any unnecessary trip to Iran and the regions of northern Italy affected by the epidemic, while announcing Canada Monday evening, 27 injured.

The European Union has raised its assessment of the seriousness of the virus from "moderate" to "moderate to high", with the latest toll reaching 2,100 confirmed infections in 18 member states.

Health ministers of the European Union will hold an extraordinary meeting on Friday in Brussels.

In Italy, the most affected country in Europe, the number of deaths exceeded the threshold of fifty deaths, and the country has become officially divided into three regions, including the "red zone" subject to quarantine and includes 11 northern towns with a total population of more than fifty thousand people.

In France, where several activities were canceled and the famous Louvre Museum remained closed, a third death was recorded in a 89-year-old woman who was diagnosed with her condition after her death in the Compiegne Hospital and Director General of Health Jerome Salomon explained that she was "suffering from other diseases".

In the United States, four deaths were recorded on Monday, raising the total number of deaths on US soil to six. I counted more than 90 casualties, and half of those injured were people who were returned from abroad.

In an effort to reassure Americans, Vice President Mike Pence, who coordinates the fight against the epidemic, announced that treatment may be reached "by the summer or early fall," noting that initial clinical trials of the vaccine may take place "within the next six weeks."

On Monday, Nike announced the closure of its European headquarters near Amsterdam until Wednesday, after an employee was diagnosed with Covid-19.

About 2,000 employees from 80 countries work at the European Nike headquarters in Hilversum, about thirty kilometers from the Dutch capital.