Mortality from Chinese coronavirus has risen sharply, another person has become infected in the USA

On February 12, 242 people died from the coronavirus in the Chinese province of Hubei. This is the highest mortality rate in one day. Writes about it BBC.

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Also, in one day the number of infected people in Hubei increased by almost 15 thousand. Wuhan is the capital of Hubei, a city with a population of 11 million, which has become the center of the outbreak and spread of the COVID-19 virus epidemic.

On February 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) gave the Chinese coronavirus 2019-nCoV the official name COVID-19.

As of Thursday morning, February 13, 60 thousand cases of infection were registered in the world, of which more than 48 thousand were in Hubei province.

Such a sharp jump in numbers is due to the fact that the statistics began to include not only patients who, based on the analysis of nucleic acids, accurately diagnosed coronavirus, but also all with characteristic symptoms and signs of pulmonary infection.

Of the 242 people who died on Wednesday, only 107 were officially diagnosed, but, experts say, even this figure is a record for one day.

Situation at sea

On Thursday, the cruise ship Westerdam docked off the coast of Cambodia after Japan, Taiwan, Guam, the Philippines and Thailand successively denied it docking over the course of several days.

There are 2257 people on board the ship - 1455 passengers and 802 crew members.

Although no cases of coronavirus have been recorded on the liner, the authorities of countries that refused to accept it on their territory are alarmed by the fact that the Westerdam left Hong Kong on February 1, and the 14 days of the incubation period during which the disease occurs without symptoms has not yet expired .

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“The Westerdam buffet has run out of cereal, but passengers are not discouraged. We are still at sea. Cambodian authorities came on board and are collecting our passports in order to issue visas to those who have plane tickets from Phnom Penh,” a passenger wrote on Twitter from aboard the plane.

Another ship - Diamond Princess — continues to quarantine near the port of Yokohama in Japan. On it, another 44 people fell ill, and now the total number of infected is 218 people.

Some are delivered to Japanese hospitals, while others are prohibited from leaving the cabins.

A total of 3700 people aboard the Diamond Princess, including passengers and crew.

The situation in the USA

So far, 14 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in the United States. February 12, the second case of coronavirus among those evacuated from China was confirmed in the United States, writes USA Today.

According to officials, the new mortality rates are significantly higher than the outbreak of SARS in 2002-2003. But the mortality rate (statistics that measure the mortality of the virus among infected people) from SARS is still significantly higher than that of coronavirus. Recent data show that mortality from coronavirus is 2,3% compared with almost 9,6% in SARS.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the 14th sick person was aboard a flight from Wuhan, which arrived at the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station in Southern California last week.

The patient was in isolation at the San Diego Hospital.

“It's too early to predict the beginning of the end” of a virus outbreak in China in December, WHO emergency head Mike Ryan told reporters in Geneva.

Earlier on the same day, a statement was published in China stating that the number of new virus infections per day had dropped to 2 new cases. Previously, this indicator was at the level of 015 new cases of diseases every day. Commission spokesman Mi Feng said the situation is still grim, but "we saw some positive changes."

However, like Ryan, Dr. Nancy Messonier from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned against trusting the latest reports.

“I’m an optimist, but I think it’s too early to say for sure without the actual data,” she said.

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Messonier hopes that the WHO front-line team, which is now in China, will be able to examine all the data: “That would certainly be encouraging if we could only observe a slowdown in human infections in China.”

The outbreak began in December in Wuhan, China.

In the United States, 14 cases of coronavirus were reported in Arizona, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Washington, and Wisconsin. One US citizen diagnosed with coronavirus died in Wuhan.

420 people have been tested in 41 states. Test results were negative for 347, and the remaining 60 are still awaiting results.

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