Chinese authorities on Thursday morning reported 38 deaths in the previous 24 hours, the largest daily increase since the start of the epidemic.
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Thehe report of the viral pneumonia epidemic rose to 170 dead on Thursday in China after an unprecedented jump in the daily number of deaths. The World Health Organization (WHO), which has called on the “world to act” on the new coronavirus, will hold a meeting this Thursday to determine whether the epidemic “constitutes a public health emergency of international concern”.
Chinese authorities on Thursday morning reported 38 deaths over the previous 24 hours, the largest daily increase since the epidemic began in December, bringing the death toll to 170.
The number of infected patients has jumped to around 7,700 in mainland China (excluding Hong Kong), now greatly exceeding the number (5,327) of people infected in 2002 and 2003 by the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic. This coronavirus then killed 774 people worldwide, including 349 in mainland China.
Wuhan, the metropolis in central China where the epidemic started, has been cut off from the world for a week, as has almost all of the surrounding province of Hubei.
Evacuating
While this draconian cordon cordon, imposed on February 23, prohibits some 56 million inhabitants from leaving the region, the United States and Japan organized operations on Wednesday to evacuate some of their nationals.
The first French plane was scheduled to depart overnight Wednesday to Thursday for Wuhan for evacuation, while a second is scheduled “later in the week,” according to the European Commission. The two planes could repatriate a total of at least 250 French people and more than 100 nationals of other European countries.
This Wednesday night, 206 Japanese were repatriated to Tokyo, three were contaminated. These three cases are in addition to the eight already identified previously in the archipelago. While the main contaminations have been detected in mainland China, around fifteen other states are also affected, with a total of around 80 confirmed cases – including a fifth case in France on Wednesday.
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