The number of deaths due to infection with the new Corona virus in China rose to 81, while 2761 cases were confirmed, including 461 cases in critical condition, while Jordan announced the suspicion that a Chinese worker returning from Wuhan was infected with the virus.
Yesterday, the National Health Commission of China said in a statement that 51 people had recovered from the infection, and there were still about 6000 people suspected of being infected with the virus.
A Jordanian medical source announced yesterday that the Jordanian authorities had transferred a Chinese worker who came days ago from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the center of the new Corona virus, to quarantine on suspicion of contracting the virus.
"The worker works for a Chinese company in an oil shale mine in Karak Governorate, and he returned a few days ago from the Chinese city of Wuhan, and he suffers from some common symptoms between seasonal flu and Corona virus, and he is under quarantine for 14 days," said the director of Al-Bashir Governmental Hospital. Dealing with his condition according to the protocol for infection with Corona virus ».
The media spokesman for the Jordanian Ministry of Health, Adnan Ishaq, said that there are also three Jordanians who arrived in Wuhan from Jordan, and that they were transferred directly to the quarantine precaution, until they were found to be free of diseases.
This comes as hundreds of workers in Wuhan are running a race against time to finish building a 1,000-bed hospital over a 10-day period as the authorities seek to fight the new Corona virus.
Hospitals are facing difficulties in the city, which is the center of the spread of the virus, due to the numbers of patients with acute pneumonia or who are afraid to catch the infection, so the authorities have started building two additional hospitals, one of which must be completed within 10 days, and a second hospital with a capacity of 1300 beds is expected to be built. Within two weeks.