The toll of the coronavirus epidemic exceeded this Wednesday, February 19, the 2000 dead on Wednesday, February 19, announces the World Health Organization (WHO). In total, the record in China reached 2004 dead.
74,185 cases of contamination by the virus, 1749 more than the day before, were also recorded in China.
About 900 contaminated people were identified in around thirty countries around the world and five deaths have been recorded in the Philippines, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan and France.
Despite these disturbing assessments, the World Health Organization is reassuring by announcing that outside the central province of Hubei, epidery of the epidemic, the disease “affects a very small proportion of the population”, with a mortality rate of around 2%, report several global press agencies.
