When Wuhan’s closure was decreed on January 23, the virus had caused 17 deaths and affected 444 people in the city.
Coronavirus deaths in China they rose to 97 in the last 24 hours to reach 2,442 deaths, and 648 new infected were registered to a total of 76,936, the National Health Commission of the Asian country reported today.
According to the source, until last local midnight (16.00 GMT on Saturday), 4,148 suspected cases were detected, while 22,888 patients had recovered from the disease and had been discharged.
Of the 97 new deaths, 96 were recorded in Hubei province and one in Canton, in the south of the country, while among the 648 new cases, 630 corresponded to Hubei, 541 of them to its capital, Wuhan, which Today is a month in quarantine.
The city accounted for 82 of the 96 deaths in the province.
Of the 46,439 confirmed cases in Hubei, 10,428 are serious and a total of 15,299 patients have been discharged since the epidemic began, 8,171 of them in Wuhan.
In the focus province of the coronavirus outbreak, 631 new suspicious cases were registered, bringing the total to 3,363.
When Wuhan’s closure was decreed on January 23, the virus had caused 17 deaths and affected 444 people in the city.
To date, 1,865 people have died and 46,201 are infected, which represents 75 and 60 percent, respectively, of those registered throughout the country.
In the whole of China, 2,230 patients were discharged in the last 24 hours and the number of serious cases decreased by 509, according to official data.
The National Health Commission also reported that in Hong Kong the infected rise to 69, with two dead and eleven discharged while in Taiwan, which Beijing considers a rebel province, so far 26 cases have been registered, with a Dead and two recovered.
Although about thirty countries have cases diagnosed of COVID-19, China accounts for around 99% of those infected.
The symptoms of the new disease are in many cases similar to those of a cold, but may be accompanied by fever and fatigue, dry cough and dyspnea (shortness of breath).
In Italy
Authorities of the Civil Protection Agency of Italy They report this Sunday that three people have died and 152 people are infected with the new coronavirus.
At the moment, the infected people have been isolated in eleven locations, ten in Lombardy and one in Veneto, they have been asked not to leave their homes, the closing of the shops has been ordered and the public activities have been suspended and the trains have not They stop at these locations.
Japanese passenger who left the infected cruise ship positive for coronavirus
A Japanese that He left this week the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which has more than 600 infections of coronavirus, has tested positive for the pathogen after having returned home and despite having negative in a pre-landing control, Kyodo news agency reported today.
The woman is one of the 969 people who disembarked between the past 19 and 21 February, having given negative in the tests of infections.
After leaving the ship moored in Yokohama (south of Tokyo) with her husband, the woman traveled to Tochigi Prefecture, north of the Japanese capital, using public transportation.
His case promises to increase criticism against the Japanese Government for its management of the Diamond Princess, on the one hand, having determined that its 3,700 occupants should pass the quarantine on board (something that probably increased the spread of the virus) and on the other, for not having Tested to 23 passengers who passed the quarantine aboard before disembarking.
On Saturday, the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare, Katsunobu Kato, apologized for this last mistake.
Kato explained that the 23 – four foreigners and 19 Japanese – had tested negative in a test that took place in early February when the ship arrived in Yokohama.
He also said that 25 foreign passengers who were repatriated to their countries – 18 Americans, six Australians and one Israeli – have tested positive for the coronavirus.
Although there is no exact data, it is believed that there are still about 1,000 crew members and about 200 passengers aboard the ship, many of them foreigners awaiting repatriation.
In total there are 769 infections (the vast majority recorded on the cruise) in Japan, where on Saturday 26 new cases were confirmed.
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