WHO – Coronavirus cases outside China continue to swell
WHO – Coronavirus cases outside China continue to swell
17:28, 26.02.2020

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for countries to “prepare for a potential pandemic” of coronavirus – a term used to describe an epidemic that spreads across multiple continents.

The virus has killed 2,715 people and infected more than 78,000 in China. There were 52 more deaths inside the country reported on Wednesday – the lowest in three weeks – with no fatalities outside the disease centre in central Hubei province.

China’s National Health Commission also reported a drop in new infections to 406, with only five outside Hubei. In the rest of the world there have been more than 40 deaths and 2,700 cases.

On Wednesday, Beijing’s health commissioner announced that the capital would quarantine people for 14 days at home or in groups if they have been to countries seriously hit by the coronavirus.

But cases of the virus outside China continue to swell, including in South Korea, which reported 284 new infections on Wednesday, raising its total to 1,261 – by far the most outside China – while an 11th person died.

The number of people infected with coronavirus all over the world is 90 980.





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