genevabeijing the rapid spread of the coronavirus increased fears of a pandemic on friday with six countries reporting their first cases and the world health organization who raising its global spread and impact risk alert to very highworld shares fell again winding up their worst week since the 2008 global financial crisis and bringing the global wipeout to 6 trillionread alsoitalian man becomes nigerias first case of coronavirus ministerlagos an italian man who arrived in nigeria three days ago has become the african countrys first case of coronavirus the health minister said on friday as infections spread rapidly worldwide the health ministry said on twitter that the case was in the state of lagos home to the southwesternnorthern california city at epicenter of coronavirus mysteryvacaville residents of a northern california community are at the epicenter of what officials are calling a turning point in the spread of the highly contagious coronavirus as investigators try to retrace the steps of a hospitalised woman they believe to be the first in the us to be infectedhopes that the epidemic that started in china late last year would be over in months and that economic activity would quickly return to normal have been shatteredwho chief tedros adhanom ghebreyesus said his organization was not underestimating the riskthat is why we said today the global risk is very high he told reporters in geneva we increased it from high to very highwho spokesman christian lindmeier said the scenario of the coronavirus reaching multiple or all countries is something we have been looking at and warning against since quite a whileswitzerland joined countries banning big events to try to curb the epidemic forcing cancellation of next weeks geneva international car show one of the industrys most important gatheringstedros said mainland china had reported 329 new cases in the last 24 hours the lowest there in more than a month taking its tally to more than 78800 cases with almost 2800 deathschinas three biggest airlines restored some international flights and the shanghai fashion show initially postponed went ahead onlinetroops deployedbut as the outbreak eases in china it is surging elsewheremexico nigeria estonia denmark the netherlands and lithuania reported their first cases all with travel history connected to italy the worstaffected european country mexico is the second latin american country to register the virus after brazilcountries other than china now account for about threequarters of new infectionsbulgaria said it was ready to deploy up to 1000 troops and military equipment to the border with turkey to prevent illegal migrant inflows as it steps up measures against the coronavirus it has not reported any casesmongolia which has yet to confirm a case placed its president battulga khaltmaa in quarantine as a precaution after he returned from a trip to china state media reporteda chinese official said some recovered patients had been found to be infectious suggesting the epidemic may be even harder to eradicate than previously thoughtlindmeier said the who was looking very carefully into reports of some people