Coronavirus Cases Popping Up in New Countries but Others Go Weeks Without New Patients: WHO

Facemask vendors wear protective facemasks as a prevention measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus alongside a street in Quetta, Pakistan on Feb. 27, 2020. Banaras Khan/AFP via Getty Images

Seven countries have reported cases of the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours, the World Health Organization (WHO) said, but others have gone weeks without reporting any new cases.

Brazil reported its first case on Wednesday. It was the first case in the Americas outside of the United States and Canada.