If you follow the Italian News, you will know that the novel coronavirus has broken out in northern Italy and that the regions of Lombardy and Veneto have been closed off.

    None of those infected in Italy have been to Wuhan or any other Chinese city, meaning they were recently infected locally. But China sealed off the city at the end of January, and Italy cut off air travel to China right away. So how did the virus get into Italy?

    I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but at the end of January, a Chinese art troupe visited Genoa, right next to Lombardy, and they invited Milan’s audience on their website, Milan is the capital of the Lombardy region.

    Perhaps it was the arrival of the Chinese art troupe that brought the virus to Italy, a country that had long since stopped flight with China.

    The outbreak has also hit South Korea, which has imposed strict travel restrictions on Chinese and has not even allowed Chinese to make connections at its airports. It's totally different with Japan, which has opened its doors to the Chinese. But the outbreak in Japan hasn't spread yet, but Korea did. Why is that?

    As can be seen from the image above, the outbreak is most severe in South Korea, centred on Taegu, where an art group Shen Yun staged a series of concerts in and around Taegu in February.

According to reports in South Korea, the dramatic spread was caused by the country's religious group, the Shinchonji. And the Shen Yun Performing Arts seems to also have a religious background. Could it be that the virus was introduced into South Korea through the contact between the two religious groups outside of the show.

    It's still scary to say, and I used to think that the virus only spread among Asians, but so many infected Italians made me believe that white people could also be infected. So for your own safety, try not to watch the Shen Yun show that could spread the virus.