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.
it did affect bitcoin, as from coingecko report if I'm not mistaken it help the market reduces quite fair amount of market capitalization though now it already stabilizes. I really hope vaccine or cure for this pandemic to be found very soon so that the halving will not go unnoticed at this time around.