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China coronavirus toll now 1,361 after largest 1-day hike
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IANS | 13 Feb, 2020
Chinese authorities on Thursday
said the overall toll due to the deadly coronavirus outbreak in the
country has reached 1,361, with 59,539 confirmed cases, after Hubei
province, the epicentre of the epidemic, registered the largest one-day
increase in infections and deaths.
The Hubei provincial health
commission said COVID-19, the official name of the disease as designated
by the WHO, had killed 1,310 people, 242 of which died on Wednesday
alone, reports Efe news.
This represents, by a large margin, the
highest number of casualties recorded in a single day in Hubei, where
the previous highest daily spike was 103 on Monday.
The
authorities said 14,840 new cases of the infection had been detected in
the province, where the commission said it has begun counting the number
of "clinically diagnosed" people, which allows them to receive the same
treatment as those who have tested positive for the illness.
Until
now the patients were confirmed by means of tests, performed with
equipment that was scarce in the province. It said doctors would now be
more able to confirm cases.
Although provincial authorities have
not provided additional details about the new criteria for accounting
for patients, the new measures will allow "patients to receive timely
treatment," the commission said in a statement.
Last week, Hubei
health authorities had indicated they would begin to recognize the
results of CT scans to confirm infections, which would allow hospitals
to isolate patients more quickly.
On Wednesday, the provincial commission confirmed 1,638 new cases, while the dead totalled to 94.
Meanwhile,
the WHO on Tuesday officially named the disease COVID-19, while the
virus which causes it has been called SARS-CoV-2 (changed from its
provisional name 2019-nCoV) by the International Committee on Taxonomy
of Viruses.
The organization said "CO" stands for "corona," "VI"
for "virus, "D" for "disease" and "-19" for "2019" - as the outbreak was
first detected December 31.
According to the latest data, the
number of reported cases outside of China were Japan (247), Singapore
(50), Hong Kong (50), Thailand (33), South Korea (28), Taiwan (18),
Malaysia (18), Germany (16), Australia (15), Vietnam (15), the US (14),
France (11), Macau (10), the UK (nine), the UAE (eight), Canada (seven),
India (three), the Philippines (three), Italy (three), Russia (two),
Spain (two), Cambodia (one), Finland (one), Nepal (one), Sri Lanka
(one), Sweden (one) and Belgium (one), the South China Morning Post said
in a report citing various health agencies.
To date, all but two
deaths - in the Philippines and Hong Kong - have occurred in mainland
China and China also accounts for about 99 per cent of those infected.
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