| Region |
Country |
Media platform |
Media discourse |
| Europe/Asia |
Russia |
Kommersant |
The number of people infected with a new type of coronavirus amounted to almost 35 thousand people, more than 700 died. The virus has spread far beyond China, where it was first detected at the end of 2019. In Russia, two cases of the disease were recorded ( Kommersant, 2020). |
| Europe |
France |
Le Monde |
L’épidémie a contaminé plus de 34 500 personnes en Chine. En France, ces cinq nouveaux cas, quatre adultes et un enfant, portent à onze le nombre de cas de coronavirus. [The epidemic has infected more than 34,500 people in China. In France, these five new cases, four adults and one child, bring the number of cases of coronavirus to eleven] ( Agence France-Presse, 2020a). |
| Europe |
Great Britain |
BBC |
It is also worth remembering that seasonal flu mostly kills the young and old, but can kill people in the prime of their life ( BBC News, 2020). |
| North America |
USA |
New York Times |
Another cause for concern was that some patients who at first appeared mildly or moderately ill then took a turn for the worse several days or even a week into their illness. The median time from their first symptoms to when they became short of breath was five days; to hospitalization, seven days; and to severe breathing trouble, eight days ( Grady, 2020). |
| North America |
Canada |
The Toronto Star |
Hundreds more Americans evacuated from the stricken zone in China began arriving Friday in the U.S., where they will be quarantined on military bases for two weeks ( The Associated Press, 2020). |
