Al Arabiya TV reported, in an urgent news, that China has recorded the lowest number of daily infections with the Corona virus, since the outbreak of the disease in a number of its cities, since last January.
British newspaper “Daily Mail” revealed that the Coruna virus kills 15% of patients over the age of 80 years, and the unprecedented strain is fiercer and 20 times more infected than SARS, and Chinese health officials conducted the largest study ever on a virus Sk.
The results showed that the Corona virus has posed the greatest threat to older patients, and it is also dangerous for those who suffer from chronic diseases, such as heart disease More than 73 thousand cases have been recorded, up to 99% of them in China.
Scientists have revealed that the deadly corona virus sweeping the world kills up to 15% of patients over the age of eighty, and Chinese health officials conducted the largest ever study of the unprecedented strain of the virus, using data from 72,000 cases, the results showed that the corona virus It poses the greatest threat to older patients with chronic conditions, such as cancer and heart disease, and researchers of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention found that 80.9% of infections are mild, and less than 5% are severe, as a separate group of virologists who study the Corona virus claimed it 20 times more infection than his sister Deadly SARS.
More than 73,000 cases have been recorded worldwide, 99% of them in China, and about 1,900 patients have already died.
The appearance of mysterious virus cases that caused pneumonia was the first in the now deserted Chinese city of Wuhan late last year.
The researchers blamed a seafood market in Hubei that illegally sold wild animals for being the source of the virus. There is no known cure for the virus, and most patients who have contracted the virus recover within two weeks without the need for medical treatment.
Those who develop more serious diseases of their lungs, such as pneumonia, need specialized medical care to stop their deadly disease, they have examined 72,314 confirmed, suspected, clinically diagnosed, and asymptomatic conditions for COVID-19 across China as of February 11 as Corona Virus “COVID-19” is the name of the virus caused by the virus, which is actually named after SARS-2 by WHO.
By comparison, SARS, which infected only a small percentage of patients during the 2002/2003 pandemic – killed about 10% of patients, while the death rate due to the Coruna virus, another type of Coronavirus, was reported for the first time in Saudi Arabia in 2012, was higher (34%).
The newspaper said, that one of the most deadly diseases in the world, Ebola, kills about half of all patients with it, Ebola is not caused by any type of coronavirus, when the SARS-2 data was examined, researchers found that more than 80 years have The highest death rate is 14.8%.
The likelihood of death was only 8% of patients between the ages of 70 and 79 and 3.6% for patients in their sixties, the rate of deaths was less than 1.5% for patients in the fifties, and less than 0.5% for anyone else, which means death About one in 200 people.
There were no deaths among children up to 9 years of age, despite at least two newborn infants with their mothers, in contrast, the influenza death rate is about 0.1%, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The newspaper stressed that the older adults have weaker immune systems, which means that it is difficult for the body to fight a virus such as the COV-2 “Corona virus” or influenza.
The newspaper pointed out that patients with heart disease are expected to die of the virus, followed by diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases and high blood pressure.
Academics also found that 80.9% of injuries were classified as mild, 13.8% were severe and 4.7% were critical, and men were more likely to die (2.8%) than women (1.7%), but experts have not yet found out why men are weak , Nearly 86% of those who contracted the disease either lived in or traveled to Wuhan, the results showed that the total death rate, that is, the percentage of patients who died, was 2.3%.
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