In a precedent, the first of its kind, since China began counting infections with the Coronavirus, in January, Beijing announced that it had not recorded any new “local source” infection of the Corona virus during the past 24 hours.
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Today, Thursday, the Chinese health authorities announced that 34 new cases of coronavirus have been recorded, while Wuhan has not registered any new infection today for the first time since the outbreak of the virus, and cases from abroad have risen by a record number, with the highest number of cases in the capital, Beijing.
The National Health Commission of China said that China witnessed 34 confirmed cases yesterday, Wednesday, more than double compared to 13 cases the previous day. Of the 34 imported cases, Beijing formed 21 cases, which is a daily record for the city.
This raises the total number of confirmed cases on the Chinese mainland so far to 80,928 cases, the death toll from the outbreak in China reached 3245 until the end of Wednesday, an increase of eight over the previous day, the Health Authority said in a statement on Thursday.
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The latest death toll from the new corona virus in the world since its appearance in December and until 18:30 GMT yesterday evening, Wednesday, 8784 deaths.
With the follow-up mechanism at the World Health Organization yesterday evening Wednesday, the number of cases of infection with the new coronavirus (Covid-19) outside China rose to 112878 until Wednesday, at a time when the number of cases globally is close to 200 thousand cases, and the mechanism indicated that the disease It affected 164 countries and regions, with a total of 7,873 deaths from the disease.
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Since the beginning of the epidemic, more than 209,500 people have been infected with the virus in 150 countries. However, these figures do not reflect the full reality, as a large number of countries have examined only those most in need of medical care.
The European Central Bank announced late on Wednesday a new temporary program to buy public and private loans worth 750 billion euros (819 billion dollars) to tackle the risks of the new Corona virus.
Israeli researchers have developed an advanced method for conducting virus tests for dozens of people at the same time, according to the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion), and the institute said in a statement yesterday, that the new method will test dozens of people simultaneously, which will greatly increase the The number of people who are tested daily.
He explained that this new method would greatly increase the number of people who are tested, and diagnose patients who do not show symptoms of the virus, before it affects other people.
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On Wednesday, Britain confirmed 32 additional cases of coronavirus (Covid-19), bringing the death toll from the disease to 104.
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