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Coronavirus: number of infected worldwide rises to over 100,000 - but good news from China

2020-03-09T10:01:35.906Z


The number of people infected with the novel coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 is now over 110,000. Nevertheless, there are positive developments from the particularly affected regions of China and South Korea.


The number of people infected with the novel coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 is now over 110,000. Nevertheless, there are positive developments from the particularly affected regions of China and South Korea.

  • New infections with the novel coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 continue to increase worldwide.
  • In addition to China , South Korea and Iran are particularly affected.
  • Around 110,000 people worldwide have been infected with Sars-CoV-2 .

Good news on Covid-19 comes from the People's Republic of China on Monday. The number of officially registered new infections with Sars-CoV-2 * has dropped to its lowest level since the publication of the numbers in January. Within a day, "only" 40 new cases of infection were detected in mainland China, as reported by the government health committee in Beijing .

Coronavirus in China: number of new infections at its lowest since January

This means that the number of infected people in China is over 80,000, but the decline in new infections is still a good sign. Most of the new cases were registered in the central Chinese province of Hubei , where the virus first appeared *. The province, in which the city of Wuhan known by Covid-19 is located, was largely closed off by the Chinese government at the end of January in order to slow the spread of Sars-CoV-2 . The number of infected people worldwide is over 110,000. The search for a possible vaccine * will probably take longer.

The majority of the 22 new deaths were also recorded in Hubei. This brings the death toll in mainland China to 3,119, which is about 80 percent of the worldwide deaths from Sars-CoV-2 *. Here too, however, the downward trend of the past few days has continued. Eleven of the 16 hospitals that were provisionally set up in Wuhan have since been closed again and the number of recovered patients in the provincial capital rose to over 31,000.

Corona virus: foreclosure of Hubei before the end? Figures also declining in South Korea

As a result of these developments, a Chinese government official has indicated that the closure of the province in central China could soon be ended. Government action affects approximately 56 million people.

Declining numbers regarding new infections with Sars-CoV-2 are also reported from South Korea, where the second most cases of infection were registered after China . There have been 248 cases of infection since Sunday, the lowest level in two weeks. In total, over 7,400 people in South Korea have been infected with Sars-CoV-2 . The official death toll is 51.

Less good news has come from Italy in the past few days, where the Sars-CoV-2 situation is coming to a head.

* merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network

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Source: merkur

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