Coronavirus continues to spread to new countries. Alongside New Zealand, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Nigeria and the Netherlands have all reported their first cases.
It's infected more than 84,000 people globally while 2868 people have died. But almost 37,000 people have now recovered.
The World Health Organisation has now issued its highest alert over coronavirus. More than 50 countries are now reporting cases with many like New Zealand just seeing it for the first time. New cases of the virus are now increasing faster in the rest of the world than in China.
South Korea has the largest outbreak outside of China with nearly 2500 cases there.
Just in the past few days, 24 cases have been exported from Italy to 14 different countries and 97 cases have been exported from Iran to 11 countries.
"The continued increase in the number of cases and the number of affected countries over the past few days are clearly of concern," said the World Health Organisation's Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus.
The United Nations says containment of the virus is possible but the window of opportunity is narrowing and it's affecting events and travel worldwide.
In Italy, the usually bustling Milan and Venice now resemble ghost towns. About 650 cases have been confirmed in the country in the space of a few days.
Like the US, the UK has just confirmed its first person to person transmission not brought in from a returning traveller.
"The issue of coronavirus is something now the Government's top priority," said United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Australia is upping its border security coronavirus security measures to well beyond China and experts there are warning half of its citizens could catch it.
The travel industry is also taking a hit, losing potentially $46 billion a month. America is citing more than 20 percent of travel being cancelled there with insurance skyrocketing.
Large world events like the world's biggest motor show in Geneva are being cancelled.
But health officials worldwide are working hard on a vaccine for the virus.
"More than 20 vaccines are in development globally and therapeutics are in several clinical trials. We expect the first results in a few weeks," said Dr Ghebreyesus.
As the world waits for a treatment, its leaders are left trying to slow down the devastating effects of this fast-spreading virus.
