The victim was a 50-year-old man who was in Wuhan, the epicenter of the epidemic, at the beginning of January and whose infection with the virus had been confirmed last Wednesday. The Beijing Public Health Committee, which specified that the patient died on Monday due to respiratory failure.
Between the infection cases identified so far by the authorities, 80 have been registered in Beijing, a city with 20 million inhabitants.
The Chinese capital has decided to extend the Lunar New Year holiday period, the main holiday for Chinese families, which was due to end on Thursday, to try to limit the movement of the population.
The cases of people infected with coronavirus have also been detected in the United States, France, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Vietnam, South Korea and Nepal.
Chinese officials have warned that the country is at the “most critical” point in terms of controlling the virus and have halted transport, canceled celebrations of the Lunar Year of the Rat and quarantined 13 cities.
–
w / agencies
– .
