, Columnist
The Coronavirus Is Starting to Go Global
Outbreaks in Italy, Iran and South Korea may be just the tip of the iceberg.
Infections don’t respect borders.
Photographer: ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP/Getty Images
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For a time, it looked like our defenses might hold.
The extraordinary lockdown of China’s Hubei province over the past month had at times appeared to be halting the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus. For much of that period, new cases outside China were running at just a dozen or so a day, most of them with clear connections back to the epicenter in the city of Wuhan.