The death toll from the new coronavirus has risen to 1,011 in China, where it is already Tuesday, after the announcement of 103 new deaths in Hubei province, authorities said. So far, the death toll has been 908.
The National Health Commission of Hubei has also identified 2,097 new cases of infection in this province of central China, whose capital is Wuhan, home of the epidemic.
Regarding the international situation, the epidemic had crossed Monday the threshold of 40,000 cases worldwide, exactly 40,645, including 40,196 in China, according to the Director General of Health Jérôme Salomon.
“Serious threat” in the UK
The British government called the new coronavirus on Monday “serious and imminent threat to public health” and announced four new cases on its soil, bringing the total number of people affected in the UK to eight.
In France, five cases of coronavirus were detected in Contamines-Montjoie (Haute-Savoie), Friday to Saturday night. On Monday, the five people carrying the virus were “in a completely reassuring clinical situation”, according to Jérôme Salomon.
The Quai d’Orsay also announced that four French were among the 3,700 passengers on the Diamond Princess, the ocean liner currently quarantined off Japan.
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