UPDATE: Coronavirus Death Toll Exceeds 900 In China
As expected, the coronavirus death toll has gone up. According to the latest updates by CNN, the Wuhan coronavirus killed 97 people in China yesterday, bringing the total number of deaths to 910 globally as of Monday. It was also reported that more than 40,000 people have now been infected.
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People have been extremely concerned over this latest outbreak as the toll has overtaken the global number of deaths caused by the (SARS) — the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome virus, which killed 774 people in 2002-2003. While the growth of new cases could still accelerate, there‘s reportedly still a window of opportunity to contain the spread of the virus, World Health Organization Health Emergencies Program Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreysus said.
Although all of the victims were confirmed to be in China, U.S. officials said a 60-year-old American who contracted coronavirus was among those who died in a Wuhan hospital earlier in the week. Meanwhile, in the U.S., a dozen people have been confirmed as having been infected with coronavirus: six in California, two in Illinois, one in Massachusetts, one in Arizona, one in Washington and one in Wisconsin. No official deaths here in the U.S. have been reported.
Doctors have been trying their best to treat the patiences. A 1,500-bed hospital was even built in two weeks in Wuhan, the city of 11 million people at the center of the outbreak, where they accepted its first patients on Saturday, the government announced. Another 1,000-bed hospital built in 10 days opened last week.
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