The number of corona deaths exceeds that of the Sars pandemic
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Coronavirus deaths in China have increased to 811. As a result, more people died from the novel coronavirus than from the Sars epidemic, which was also caused by a coronavirus.
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More than 800 confirmed deaths in China – more people have died from the new corona virus 2019-nCoV than from Sars respiratory disease. What happens if the virus spreads all over the world? The most important answers can be found here.
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DCoronavirus deaths in China have increased to 811. As a result, more people died from the new pathogen than from Sars respiratory disease, which was rampant 17 years ago. At that time, 774 dead were officially registered.
According to the Chinese health authority, the number of confirmed infections is just under 37,200. Outside of China, more than 330 cases are known in around 25 countries, including 14 in Germany. Around 20 German citizens from the Chinese metropolis of Wuhan are expected in Berlin on Sunday. The most important questions and answers about the new virus:
Can spread be prevented?
Just a week ago, WHO emergency coordinator Michael Ryan believed that the quarantine would work and that independent epidemics outside of Wuhan would not occur. The Coronavirus 2019-nCoV would then disappear after a while, like its relative Sars. Other experts thought that was increasingly unlikely. One of the critical questions for the assessment was the question of whether people without symptoms can also infect others.
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A current report from the university hospital in Wuhan has now clearly confirmed that this is possible. Individual patients even seem to be highly contagious: one patient in the surgical department infected ten hospital staff and probably four other patients. No one suspected he was infected. According to doctors, 41 percent of the documented patients with pneumonia were infected within the hospital.
What happens if the virus spreads all over the world?
The new virus could join the four already known coronaviruses, which appear again and again in different locations and are estimated to be responsible for a quarter of all colds. There would then be more people worldwide with cough and runny nose who sometimes get pneumonia or even die.
It is also conceivable that 2019-nCoV, like the flu, apparently disappears during the summer months and breaks out again every year. The reason: viruses are sensitive to moist heat; during the winter and spring months they spread more easily in the dry, cold air.
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It is currently not possible to estimate how many deaths would result from a worldwide distribution. In China, two percent of those affected have died so far. However, the mortality rate is certainly much lower, since many infected people with mild symptoms are not registered. For comparison: In normal years, the mortality rate for flu is below 0.1 percent, but in a few exceptions it has already risen to over one percent.
Which medications help?
So far, there is no drug against any of the known corona viruses. In severe cases, doctors try treatment with broadly effective antiviral substances. These include the HIV inhibitors lopinavir and ritonavir, which have already been used by Sars.
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In a severe course in the United States, doctors gave the unapproved drug Remdesivir, which was actually developed for Ebola. A laboratory test had an effect against 2019-nCoV. The condition of the seriously ill patient quickly improved. Several studies are currently underway in China testing antiviral drugs on people with 2019 nCoV.
Will the virus mutate?
In principle, all viruses can change in an unpredictable way. Coronaviruses are among the RNA viruses that mutate particularly easily, because unlike DNA viruses, they store their genetic information through the chemically similar but more unstable RNA molecules.
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However, scientists have found a control function against copying errors in the Sars, which is closely related to 2019-nCoV. It is likely that 2019-nCoV also has this correction and is less likely to mutate than flu or HIV.
In general, well-adapted viruses are less deadly to humans because they can spread more easily.
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