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As of today, the US has 1,539,542 cases of COVID19 with 92,098 deaths. The first case was detected on January 20, 2020.
https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-USA/0100B5K8423/index.html

South Korea detected its first COVID19 case on the same day as the US.

SEOUL: Thirty-two new cases were reported on Wednesday, bringing the total to 11,110. The death toll stands at 263.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/high-school-seniors-return-to-school-in-south-korea-despite-sporadic-coronavirus

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The concept of the transformative power of a kiss is, of course, well documented in mythology and folklore. Jacob Grimm refers to situations where
someone “in some disgusting shape, as a snake, dragon, toad or frog, has to be
kissed three times” (Grimm, 3: 969), and there are certainly folktales “that
relate to transformation of Princes into beasts, and their release through
woman’s love. . . . It [the animal] can be released on one condition only—that
a fair maid shall kiss it on the lips” (Baring-Gould, 74).3 Lutz Röhrich also
stresses the fact that variants other than that of the Brothers Grimm fall much
more in line with the so-called animal bridegroom cycle of fairy tales (ATU
425), where the princess must first show love to bring about the animal’s
transformation—that is, she has to kiss the frog or at least let him sleep next to
her for three nights (Röhrich, Wage es, den Frosch zu küssen, 40).

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13110/marvelstales.28.1.0104