In a special flight that will bring Niccolò back to Italy, the 17-year-old remained in Wuhan who has not been able to return due to fever twice . The return is scheduled for Saturday.
China 'cuts' 108 units, at 1,380, the overall death toll from coronavirus updated yesterday after the checks carried out on Hubei data that revealed cases of double counting. The National Health Commission, in its daily updates, has also taken steps to eliminate 1,043 cases from the total number of infections ascertained following an unspecified "verification".
A first group of 11 passengers, aged 80 and over, tested negative for Coronavirus, disembarked from the Diamond Princess, the cruise ship quarantined in Yokohama Bay in Japan, to be transferred to protected accommodation made available from the government. This was confirmed by an official of the Japanese government, specifying that passengers will remain in the accommodation provided until the end of the quarantine on February 19.
The death toll of coronavirus is growing: the known numbers now speak of 1,383 deaths and over 4,800 new infections in the province of Hubei alone. After the re-modulation of the parameters to define the contagions, and the surge in data that coincided with the beheading of the leaders of the Wuhan party, the numbers fall into the trend of the past few days.
The plasma of people recovered from Sars-Cov-2, the new coronavirus, is rich in antibodies that could help treat patients in the infection . This was stated by the China National Biotec Group, a private Chinese company, which in a statement informs that it has used this treatment on ten patients who have had improvements in 24 hours, and asks the survivors to donate plasma to continue the experimentation.
