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I have the same problem with this.  Like in Canada they had their first case on 28 January.  They've had 77 cases since then, most of them have recovered and only one fatality.  You can check the stats in Wikipedia here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coron..._in_Canada

Now look at Europe and particularly Northern Italy whose first cases started on 30 January, 2 days after Canada.  As far as I know it is the same strain virus.  They must be dealing with it differently, and for the stats maybe we're getting it differently too.  It's very confusing though.  
https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.co...s-tourism/

This is what the article below says - but still - Canada is also very closely connected with airports.  Like Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary have huge traffic and there is a very close and large network with China with plenty of air travel:

Your point regarding the aviation industry in italy vs Canada is quite a good point. I never really thought of it in that way. This also got me wondering, since a lot of our everyday items are made in China, that makes it impossible for countries to completely hault flights to and from china. Specifically the cargo flights. This in itself is a huge issue as not only the shipped (flown?) items could have the virus, the pilots could be carrying it as well!

As for the coronavirus mutating into a second strand, what exactly are the differences between the first and second strand in terms of dangers, infectability (I don’t think that’s a word lol) and symptoms? Looking that up ended up confusing me even more!