A reader writes concerning how Italy has recently passed China in number of deaths from COVID-19:
Apparently there are a lot of Chinese nationals living and working for Chinese-owned factories in northern Italy, and a lot of travel back and forth for the Chinese New Year holiday: https://www.newyorker.com/…/the-chinese-workers-who…
That explains a lot – basically, northern Italy becomes a small province of China. But are we seeing the same thing in Africa, which also has some significant transitory Chinese populations? From the image on the right, it appears not – but, again, how trustworthy is the data? All those small dots mean a very small number of infections, and no deaths.
And Russia continues to have absurdly small numbers.
