I do not think the COVID-19 epidemic affects BTC. Currently, the disease has not been repelled. And scientists have yet to make a vaccine to prevent this new strain of Corona virus. Countries around the world are seriously affected economically by restricting trade with each other. But today's BTC price has risen to $ 9400. I think the main reason is that the upcoming halving day of BTC means that the difficulty of BTC mining doubled, leading to the scarcity of BTC in the future.