Monitoring that pesky COVID-19
After travelling to Malaysia and Singapore, it’s interesting to compare the reaction of these countries to the COVID-19 outbreak and that of my own and the United States. Malaysia had its first case of the coronavirus on January 25 th . While my wife and I visited the country, the number was kept at 26 and since then has sprung to 93. No deaths have resulted from the disease. The first case of COVID-19 was reported in Singapore on January 23. Since that time, 130 cases have been detected. And like Malaysia, no deaths. Then, of course, there’s the statistics coming in from around the world, 7041 infected in South Korea with 53 deaths, Italy with 5,883 infections and 233 deaths, Iran with 5,823 infections and 145 deaths and so on down the line. Of course, these numbers are changing hourly. New cases in China have diminished considerably and Canada is well down the list with 60 infections and no deaths. Our close...