“As of midnight on January 19, 198 cases of infection with a new type of coronavirus were registered in Wuhan, 25 people have already been discharged from hospitals, four people have died,” RIA Novosti reports from the Wuhan City Health Committee.
It is reported that the deceased is an 89-year-old man, the symptoms of the disease began to appear on January 13.
It was previously reported that the emergency committee of the World Health Organization will hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday, January 22, in connection with the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV.
Zhong Nanshan, an expert at the State Committee for Hygiene and Healthcare of China, said that a new type of coronavirus recently discovered in the Chinese city of Wuhan is transmitted from person to person.