Hong Kong metro users, February 4, 2020. – AFP
The balance sheet continues to climb. A Hong Kong 39-year-old reached by the new coronavirus this Tuesday became the first person to die from this viral epidemic in the megalopolis and the second out of China Mainland.
He traveled to Wuhan city in January before returning to the semi-autonomous territory on January 23 on an express train. Many Hong Kong media, citing medical sources, however claimed that the victim suffered from health problems which complicated his treatment. According to the latest figures, the virus has caused a total of 425 deaths.
Macau closes casinos
Since its appearance, this coronavirus has therefore infected more than 20,000 people and has spread to more than 20 countries. Measures to prevent the spread of the epidemic continue to be taken. A stone’s throw from Hong Kong, macao has just announced the closure of its famous casinos, True economic lungs of the territory, they will not be able to open “for two weeks,” announced the head of local government Ho Iat-seng.
In the area, the Japan also continues to take containment measures to protect its population. National authorities are in the process of checking the health of 3,711 quarantined people aboard a cruise ship near Tokyo, after a proven case of coronavirus among one of the passengers who disembarked in Hong Kong. Japanese television shows on Tuesday images of several quarantine officers boarding the “Diamond Princess”, a cruise ship of the American company Princess Cruises (Carnival Corp group), to check the health of 2,666 passengers and 1,045 crew members.
Japan screening cruise ship for coronavirus https://t.co/kpP8H9jQL0
– NHK WORLD News (@NHKWORLD_News) February 3, 2020
The ship had already been quarantined on Saturday in Naha, on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. But a second quarantine was organized after the discovery of the coronavirus in an octogenarian who landed in Hong Kong. In total, Japan has listed 20 cases of infected people on its territory, including four without symptoms, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Health released on Monday.
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