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The Ministry of Health of China announced on Tuesday that the death toll from the outbreak of the new coronavirus in the country has increased to 490 and 24,324 infected people have already been confirmed. Although China is the epicenter of the outbreak and the most affected country, the coronavirus has already spread to other countries in Southeast Asia and cases have also been detected in Europe and America . Outside of China, two people have died from the virus. The first in the Philippines and the other in Hong Kong .

Endangered Tokyo Olympics

The head of the organizing committee of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games , Toshiro Muto , has shown on Wednesday "very concerned" about the expansion of the new coronavirus originating in Wuhan and its possible impact on the sporting event.

"I am very concerned about the spread of infectious coronavirus disease because it could slow down the environment and the momentum for the organization of the Games. I hope this ends as soon as possible," said the president of the organizing committee in statements collected by the state network. Japanese NHK.

First kit to detect coronavirus

A laboratory in the town of Redován ( Alicante ), MDC of the Itevesaba group, has since January 29 the first coronavirus detection kit , responsible for the Wuhan pneumonia outbreak.

This has been confirmed to Efe laboratory sources, who have indicated that this kit is available for any team specialized in the detection of genetic material and that gives results in just two hours.

The equipment is designed to exclusively detect the 2019-nCoV strain of the new coronavirus from the study of the sequences of its genome, published in the scientific databases. It is aimed at a field hospital, mobile units, emergency laboratories or private type of any point.

Pregnant women can transmit the virus

Pregnant women who get the new coronavirus can transmit the virus to the fetus, doctors at Wuhan Children's Hospital said Wednesday, Reuters reports.

The conclusion comes after the delivery of a coronavirus patient last Sunday. 30 hours after birth, the medical team confirmed with a test that the baby was born infected.

With mild symptoms there is also contagion

The analyzes carried out in German patients infected with the coronavirus reveal that some of them present even with a mild infectious virus symptomatology in the nasopharyngeal area, which allows to conclude that they can even transmit this new variant with hardly any symptoms.

Thus, according to the statement released today by the Berlin clinic Charité , the Schwabing Clinic in Munich and the German Army Institute of Microbiology , the symptoms presented by the patients examined "are more similar to a harmless cold than to severe pneumonia."

This is the group infected by the focus on the German car components company Webasto , which originates from a colleague from China who visited the factory headquarters in Bavaria , in southern Germany, to teach a course on training.

There are currently twelve confirmed cases of infection by the coronavirus in Germany, 10 of them due to the focus on the Webasto company - including two minors - and two others from the group of 124 people evacuated from Wuhan last Saturday.

10 infected on a cruise in Japan

The Ministry of Health of Japan announced on Wednesday the detection of at least 10 infections of the new coronavirus among the 3,700 passengers of the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which has been declared in quarantine when it was planned to disembark in Yokohama , south of Tokyo, after passing by Hong Kong , reports Efe.

The results correspond to a first round of medical tests performed on 31 of the approximately 2,700 passengers and 1,000 crew members of the ship, so it is feared that the total number of infections will be higher. The ten passengers whose contagions have been confirmed have been hospitalized and none of them have serious symptoms, according to Japan's Minister of Health, Katsunobu Kato , told a news conference today.

All passengers have been quarantined for at least 15 days inside the ship.

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