The number of new Corona virus victims in China reached 170 on Thursday, after an unprecedented rise in the number of deaths within one day, while the process of evacuating the French, after the Americans and Japanese, from Wuhan, isolated from the world, began, according to the Emirati newspaper, Al Bayan.
The World Health Organization, which called on the “whole world to act” to confront the virus, is holding a meeting Thursday to decide whether this disease constitutes a public health emergency of an international dimension.“.
On Thursday, Chinese authorities announced an additional 38 deaths from the virus in central China’s Hubei Province within 24 hours, the highest daily rise in deaths since the outbreak began in December, bringing the death toll to 170..
The number of injured rose to 7,700 on the Chinese mainland (outside Hong Kong). This number exceeded the number of infections when the SARS virus (acute respiratory syndrome) spread, which infected 5327 people in 2002 and 2003 and resulted in the deaths of 774 people worldwide, including 349 on the Chinese mainland..
And the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the disease appeared and spread, cut off from the world a week ago, as well as nearly the entire province of Hubei.
While this harsh quarantine imposed on January 23 on 56 million people living in the area is isolated from the world, the United States and Japan have organized evictions of part of their citizens from the provinces.
France, in turn, sent a plane to Wuhan at dawn on Thursday, according to identical sources. Friday is supposed to have 250 people on board, according to a source close to the file.
A second plane is scheduled to arrive “later this week,” according to the European Commission. The two planes are supposed to carry 250 French people in total and 100 citizens from other European countries.
Other countries are also planning to evacuate their citizens: Italy announced sending a plane Thursday, and Berlin is preparing to deport 90 Germans in the “coming days”, and so will Canada. Australia and the United Kingdom are also attending to carry out evacuations.
New Zealand announced Thursday that it will send a plane to Wuhan, with a capacity for 300 people.
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