The World Health Organization announced yesterday that the new Corona virus, which has spread from China to 24 countries, is not yet a global epidemic, while the number of deaths due to the virus in China has risen to 425 people, and the number of infections exceeded 20 thousand.

"Currently we are not in a state of global pandemic, we are at a stage when the epidemic is multifocal, we hope that based on measures to prevent the spread of the virus in Hubei and elsewhere, we can make it possible," Sylvian Brian, head of the WHO's Department of Pandemics and Epidemic Diseases, told reporters in Geneva. Stopping infection and getting rid of the virus ».

In addition, a field hospital, built by China within 10 days, began receiving patients with the new coronavirus in Wuhan, with the aim of relieving pressure on overcrowded hospitals in this Chinese city from which the outbreak began.

The Chinese enthusiastically embraced the construction of this facility, which can accommodate about 1000 beds. TV channels were broadcasted online for 24 hours a day, 4000 workers with drilling equipment to finish the work.

The facility, which was awarded the name "Huyshanshan", was placed under the control of the army, and it is one of two pre-equipped hospitals, to be constructed with the aim of relieving pressure on health institutions in this large city of 11 million people, which faces an unusual flow of patients.

The official channel, "CCTV", broadcast pictures of patients wearing medical masks, as they drove from ambulances to wheelchairs or mobile beds with the help of doctors in blue uniforms.

The builders worked day and night to finish building this hospital, and all of them wore protective masks at the request of the authorities who ordered all Wuhan residents to do so.

The site was connected to the fifth-generation Internet network, which allows for high-speed communications, and to make video diagnoses through an expert team that directs field teams, according to the New China News Agency, and a military medical team consisting of 1400 people works in this facility, some of whom previously participated in Combating SARS and Ebola fever.

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region registered the first death of the new Corona virus, while movement restrictions were imposed in two other out-of-focus cities, one of which includes the Alibaba e-commerce website.

Algeria yesterday denied reports of deaths in the country due to the new mutated Corona virus, and the director of the train hospital in the capital, Algiers, Issam El Din Bouyousef, said: “What has been circulated about the recent death of three women in the capital with the Corona virus is completely naked from health, but are flu cases. Seasonality ».

The Malaysian government confirmed the first case of infection among its citizens with the virus, for a 41-year-old Malaysian citizen.

Britain demands that all its citizens leave China

The British government has asked all its citizens to leave China, to avoid the risk of contracting the new Coronavirus. "The safety and security of the British people will remain our priority, so we require all British citizens in China to leave the country if they can, to reduce their risk of contracting the virus," Foreign Minister Dominic Rap said in a statement.

An update to the travel brochure, issued by the Office of Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, said: "The main work teams will remain in its embassy and consulates in China, which will limit their ability to assist British citizens."

London - dpa

A field hospital built by China within 10 days begins receiving patients in Wuhan.