Day 28: Poetic Justice

Poetic justice continues mowing down Iranian officials; reported cases now include (Ms.) Massoumeh Ebtekar, women's affairs, and Mojtaba Zolnour, national security and foreign affairs. Both are self-quarantined. For the country as a whole, the case count stands at 388 with 34 deaths.

Italy stands at 655 cases with 17 deaths, and has infected most of Europe at this point. More disturbingly, an Italian citizen in Nigeria has fallen ill, for that country's first case. The case was caught early on the patient's return to Nigeria, so the other 205 million Nigerians may be safe for the moment. Switzerland has banned large public events.

Germ Boat #2's case count does not include passengers falling ill after evac so remains steady at 705, but does include passenger deaths in Japanese hospitals, which have risen to 6. In other Japanese news, the governor of Hokkaido (a prefecture including the northernmost large island of Japan as well as some smaller islands) has declared a state of emergency over the local case count (54).

South Korea is now at 2,337 cases with 13 deaths. China continues to claim recovery with only 327 new cases.