The results of the epidemic of the new coronavirus crossed, Tuesday, February 11, 2020, the 1000 dead mark. She indeed caused the death of 1113 people in continental China, the national health authorities reporting on Wednesday 97 new deaths.
In its daily bulletin, the National Health Commission also reported in 2015 new cases of contamination, a drop in relation to previous days. A total of 44,653 contaminated people have now been listed in continental China.
Apart from China, including the autonomous regions of Macao and Hong Kong, more than 470 cases of contamination were confirmed in around thirty countries and territories. Almost all deaths have occurred in the province of Hubei, the cradle of the contagion, of which Wuhan is the capital.
For the World Health Organization (WHO), the virus is a “very serious threat” for the world, the director general of the institution on Tuesday. “With 99% of cases in China, this remains a great urgency for this country, but this is also a very serious threat to the rest of the world,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyes at the opening in Geneva of an WHO conference on the disease.
