Coronavirus, cases of infected people without travel history

Coronervirus' spread is taking on other dimensions worldwide. In the United States, cases of persona infections that have no travel history or contact with other infected people are emerging. The virus is also rapidly spreading to Italy, South Korea, and Iran. The OBS suspects countries like Iran or North Korea are hiding the epidemic.

In the United States, cases of infection of patients without travel history are being reported on Fridays, or meetings with others infected.

Three such cases were reported in the American states of California, Oregon, and Washington.

Within this week, 65 cases of infection have been reported in the United States, but so far they have been linked to travel abroad or contact with people who had traveled.

In addition to China, the epidemic's epicentre, South Korea has numbered thousands of infected, where authorities reported 594 new cases on Friday alone, broadcast news.

Most of the infections have been linked to a religious sect where a person infected had attended a mass of over 4,000 people a few weeks earlier.

In Italy the number of infections increased by at least 40 percent. The most affected region remains Lombardia, while a total of over 800 people have been infected and 21 have lost their lives.

The World Health Organization is also following cases of concern in Iran, where it is not officially taught that over 200 people have lost their lives from the Coronavirus, immediately rejected by the Ministry of Health.

The United States offered Iran assistance in curbing the epidemic, but it was rejected by official Tehran.

There is also fear that North Korea is hiding cases of infection, as the official news agency quoted leader Kim Jong Un as seeking during the meeting of the Political Bureau to take all measures to curb the spread of the virus.