As I said before, this is a result of mass testing. At the moment 3 people died for this virus, all of them relatively old or with preexistent pathologies (cardiac and cancer). As by tradition in our health system, we are going to record a sharp rise in cases of coronavirus as this mass testing will continue for at least 2 weeks. Personally I don't think they are acting bad with this mass screening, as this is due to prevent serious consequences for potential people at high risk. In my view, the problem is the fear around this virus, which seems to me too much.
However, I would like to ask to european users here about their governments' actions to prevent virus from spreading. Here in Italy, direct flights from China were suspended weeks ago, but no mandatory quarantine was required to those coming from there. What about your countries?