Wuhan Coronavirus Death Toll Rises to 106 in China

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28 Jan. 2020 / 12:07

Wuhan Coronavirus Death Toll Rises to 106 in China

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed five cases of a SARS-like form of coronavirus in the U.S. On Tuesday, Chinese officials announced 25 additional deaths from the infection, raising the death toll to 106. The disease, which is believed to have originated in a seafood market in the Chinese central city of Wuhan, has infected a few thousand people across China and has also spread to other countries, times.com reports.

Chinese officials have confirmed more than 4,400 cases of the novel coronavirus nationwide and more than 2,700 cases in Hubei, the province where Wuhan is located, according to a virus tracker maintained by researchers at Johns Hopkins University.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called the outbreak a “grave” situation and sent the country’s Premier, Li Keqiang, to Wuhan to assess the response to the virus. Li, who is head of a new task force that’s coordinating efforts to contain the disease, said Monday that the government would send 2,500 more medical workers to Wuhan over the next two days.

Chinese officials have extended the Chinese New Year holiday in an effort to keep people at home.

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization’s director general, is traveling to Beijing, China, to meet with government and health officials on the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.

The WHO has so far declined to declare the dangerous respiratory disease a global health emergency, despite the spread of the infection from China to at least five other countries and the increasing death toll.

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