Coronavirus Cases Hit 174,000 Worldwide, Deaths Exceed 7,000

Mar.17 -- Governments across the globe are boosting efforts to prevent the coronavirus outbreak from spreading further as cases hit 174,000 worldwide, and deaths exceed 7,000. Selina Wang reports on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Middle East."

[rdowg]

"It's just a flu, bro"

"Dont worry bro, the flu killed 50, 000 last year"

[BongToke]

An yet UPS is still open and making my fellow Americans work in unsanitary conditions around 500+ people and they dont plan on shutting down anytime soon! Not acceptable

[TheDetroitblack]

Praying for the entire families and Friends who have been affected by this Virus, please everybody stay safe!! Much love and care for everybody💉💊😷🤧🤒🤢😫

[kinte]

Why is it the media never tells you how many people have recovered? They keep upping the number of cases to make it seem like no one is recovering from it.

[bryVegas]

The world is in turmoil and China is like ok we're good now. Close hospitals.

[atillathehungry]

So the chinese say its over in china and we believe them. lol

[chriscorley]

We had 61, 000 recorded Influenza deaths in the USA alone -- 2018.

Coronavirus = 7, 000 worldwide -- 2020.

Seems fear and paranoia is spreading faster than the actual treatable illness.

[meorme]

Its more like 11, 175, 000 Cases but um don’t panic just relax and take a cruise or go to Europe the tickets are 50% off and you get 2 free weeks stay with 3 day purchase. Tootles

[mika-cgfk]

i see a lot of common comments. all talking about “you won’t die unless you’re immunocompromised or old!!” i hate to break it to you folks, but people with immunodeficiencies are valuable people who deserve to be healthy just like everybody else. quit trying to downplay the affect of this virus, just because it may not kill you directly.

[townchauffeur]

They are accomplishing in days what took them years before this "invisible enemy" took center stage. There is an obvious motive with all of this, NO QUESTION

[avsocto]

China only 20 cases....
Come are not fools.

[garyritterstrings]

Correction. As of 1:56 today . Deaths 7, 894

[pinklady]

This is terrible. God bless the people who are sick. In the meantime, we have people hording the food at our grocery store again, in California. 😷

[matyas]

Imagine shutting down the world for 3-4% mortality. Im amazed

[terrie]

Driveby checkpoint workers did not wear any protections. Oh dear.

[uhadme]

Kind of crazy hysteria when you think about 480, 000 people dying every year in US because of tobacco, year after year

[lindaleelaw]

In Denver, City Council members should be designing a testing / quarantined center in every neighborhood .
If we can keep, test and treat locally, we can contain it better.

[humanityinterrupted]

China air clear blue skies seen after 10 years of foggy skies the only good thing coronavirus has done is clean our air everywhere has had less pollution in the skies for over a decade for a long enough time that would benifit us and this is something that needed to be done is give our planet a break on the amount of pollution going in the sky because it could help repair some damage possibly give us clean rain we need cooler summers not as horrible winter's or cleaner fresher winter's either way this amount of time for our sky is a good thing regardless of the bad this has caused always find a positive in dark times we all need to put positive energy in the air it's really important calm rational positive actions thoughts and laughter and appreciation for all life as well as caring more for our planet and coming together as humanity not separate races by land we all need each other so we can succeed and go beyond the limits of our skies or to put deepest oceans and to experiance amazing wonders beyond our wildest imagination

[Contreras]

Pls everybody wash your HANDS I feel like I don’t even wanna play at my ants house anymore

[rickjohnson]

Thanx China for another disease. Get your country together