Death Toll For Wuhan Virus Up By 15 In Less Than 24 Hours
WUHAN VIRUS DEATH TOLL – Fifteen more people were confirmed to have died due to the Wuhan coronavirus according to the provincial health authority.
This totals the death toll to 41 in Mainland China as health officials struggle to contain the virus. In addition, the number of infections worldwide has risen to 900.
180 more cases were confirmed in Hubei. With this, the number of confirmed cases in Mainland China increased to 1,072.
Recent reports have led people to believe that China is heavily struggling to contain the virus. Residents from Wuhan are blasting the government and health officials as patients flood hospitals.
According to a report from CNN, all provinces in China have been infected with the virus except the remote autonomous regions of Qinghai and Tibet.
This led leading virologists to fear that the lockdown of transportation in Wuhan would do little to help prevent the outbreak of the virus as it had already left the city.
On Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) had declared the new coronavirus as a health emergency in China. However, it had not raised the outbreak as a “world health emergency”.
As per the report, David Heymann, the chairman of a WHO committee on gathering data on the outbreak stated that the virus was spreading from person to person faster than previously thought.
He added that the virus is now seeing a “third-generation spread”. This means that someone who became infected after handling animals at the market spread it to someone else, who spreads it to a third person.
Previously, the virus was said to be only transmitted through close contact. However, new studies reveal that more distant contacts could spread the virus such as sneezing or coughing near someone’s face.
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