The death toll from the new coronavirus rose this Friday to 719, with more than 34,000 people infected. Only two deaths, one in Hong Kong and one in the Philippines, did not occur in mainland China.
Since the last swing, on Thursday, there were another 81 deaths and 2841 cases of infection in the outbreak that began in Wuhan city in central Hubei province, Hubei health officials announced.
In Europe, the number of confirmed cases reached 31, with new infections detected in the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy.
The Chinese doctor who gave the first warning about the outbreak of the new coronavirus died on Thursday, after contracting pneumonia last week, he announced the hospital where he was admitted.
The death Li Wenliang, who was reprimanded by the police for reporting the deadly coronavirus outbreak, is raising several calls for free speech in China. In Chinese social media, the phrase “I want freedom of speech” went viral, after news of the death of the 34-year-old ophthalmologist, who made the first warnings about the new virus.
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