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Corona virus: more deaths than Sars – Germans start in Wuhan

Updated February 9, 2020, 6:42 p.m.

To date, more than 37,000 people have contracted the coronavirus and more than 800 have died from the disease – more than in the pandemic of the Sars virus. Other German citizens are flown out of the heavily affected city of Wuhan. They are due to arrive in Berlin on Sunday after a stopover in Oxford.

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The death toll from the new coronavirus surpassed the Sars pandemic 17 years ago. With 89 new deaths from the lung disease, which the Chinese health authority confirmed on Sunday, the total number of victims worldwide rose to 813. According to the WHO, severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) affected 8,096 people in 2002/2003 and 774 died worldwide. There were 648 deaths in mainland China and Hong Kong alone.

Meanwhile, a British charter plane with German returnees from the Chinese city of Wuhan, severely affected by the coronavirus, made its way to Great Britain. The plane with 200 British and other citizens on board took off in Wuhan on Sunday morning at 3.20 a.m. (local time; 8.20 p.m. CET on Saturday evening), the Foreign Office said in London on Saturday evening. It was due to land at the British military airport near Oxford on Sunday morning.

The Federal Foreign Office tweeted on Saturday evening with thanks to the British authorities: “On a British charter plane, Germans and family members from Wuhan are on their way home.” In Berlin about 20 German citizens from Wuhan are expected on Sunday morning.

Returnees must be in the isolation area for two weeks

The number of confirmed infections from the virus rose on Sunday China by another 2656 to 37,198 cases. Outside China, more than 300 confirmed infections have been confirmed, 14 of them in Germany.

Except for one victim in the Philippines and one in the Chinese Special Administrative Region Hong Kong all deaths have occurred in mainland China – most in the particularly hard-hit province of Hubei, where the virus originally broke out in Wuhan City. So far, 780 people have died in the province.

According to the health administration, the returnees from Wuhan are being received by an official doctor in Tegel. It should check whether passengers experienced symptoms during the flight. They will then be housed in an isolation area in the clinics of the German Red Cross in the Köpenick district on the south-eastern outskirts of Berlin. All passengers would be tested for the corona virus. A result is expected for Monday noon.

According to the current plans, the returnees should stay in the hospital for 14 days, be examined and treated if necessary. Just over a week ago, around 100 German citizens and family members had arrived in Frankfurt am Main with a Bundeswehr aircraft. (Dpa / KAD)

The corona virus continues to spread. However, there is currently no effective therapy. The pharmaceutical industry is also dampening hopes for the rapid development of a vaccine.


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