Im natalie allen. And this is cnn newsroom. We want to bring you the latest on the coronavirus, the pandemic is spreading so quickly around the world that Health Experts are having a tough time keeping track of all the new cases. Well give it a try here because right now Johns Hopkins university in the u. S. Reporting more than 307,000 infections worldwide. More than 13,000 people have died. As more testing is done in the u. S. , the number of confirmed cases is surging. There are now almost 26,000 cases of covid19 and more than 320 deaths. The epicenter of the outbreak in europe is italy. More than 53,000 cases there. Thats double any other country outside of china. And nearly 800 people died there in a single day. The Prime Minister says its the greatest crisis facing the country since world war ii. And the contagion is spreading rapidly across spain. It reported a huge spike of 5,000 new infections in a single day. Madrids hotels are now being used as hospitals and city buses as amb