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> Which might be a reason there aren't any confirmed cases on the continent. There is not a single confirmed case of coronavirus in the entire Central and East
by krn 7y ago
> Which might be a reason there aren't any confirmed cases on the continent.
There is not a single confirmed case of coronavirus in the entire Central and Eastern Europe, yet[1]. Most likely because there are almost no direct flights from Asia to this region, since it lacks major international metropolitan areas and global tourist attractions.
[1] https://ig.ft.com/autograph/graphics/coronavirus-map.svg https://ig.ft.com/autograph/graphics/coronavirus-map.svg
- mantap 7y agoThere are strong links between sub-saharan Africa and China as China has been heavily investing there and there are many Chinese people there. So we would definitely expect to see some cases there by now.
- biztos 7y agoHungary has a pretty big Chinese community mostly in Budapest, plus plenty of Chinese tourists, and I would assume there was a lot travel around the New Year. If we are guessing about why (and whether) there is no Coronavirus in CE Europe, “no Chinese” is probably not a good guess.
- riffraff 7y agobut the amount of traveling chinese is still much much smaller than to larger western european countries. Consider that Italy has had 3 cases to date: a chinese couple from Wuhan and an italian who was repatriated from Wuhan and is in quarantine. There are 300k chinese nationals in Italy and about 20k in Hungary, and while I love Budapest the amount of chinese tourists is nothing compared to those in Rome.
- petre 7y agoPrague is usually full of Chinese tourists and to a lesser extent also Budapest.