Hong Kong metro users on February 4, 2020. - AFP

The balance sheet continues to climb. A 39-year-old Hong Kong man infected with the new coronavirus became the first person to die of this viral epidemic in the megalopolis on Tuesday and the second outside of mainland China.

He had gone to Wuhan city in January, before returning to the semi-autonomous territory on January 23 on an express train. Many Hong Kong media, citing medical sources, however claimed that the victim suffered from health problems which complicated his treatment. According to the latest figures, the virus has caused a total of 425 deaths.

Macau closes casinos

Since its appearance, this coronavirus has therefore infected more than 20,000 people and has spread to more than twenty countries. Measures to prevent the development of the epidemic continue to be taken. A short distance from Hong Kong, Macao has just announced the closure of its famous casinos, for example. True economic lungs of the territory, they will not be able to open "for two weeks," announced the head of local government Ho Iat-seng.

In the area, Japan also continues to take containment measures to protect its population. The authorities of the country are thus in the process of checking the state of health of 3,711 quarantined people on board a cruise ship near Tokyo, after a proven case of coronavirus among one of the passengers who landed in Hong Kong. Japanese television shows on Tuesday images of several quarantine officers boarding the "Diamond Princess", a cruise ship of the American company Princess Cruises (Carnival Corp group), to check the health of 2,666 passengers and 1,045 crew members.

Japan screening cruise ship for coronavirus https://t.co/kpP8H9jQL0

- NHK WORLD News (@NHKWORLD_News) February 3, 2020

The ship had already been quarantined on Saturday in Naha, on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa. But a second quarantine was organized after the discovery of the coronavirus in an octogenarian landed in Hong Kong. In total, Japan has listed on its territory 20 cases of infected people, including four without symptoms, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Health released on Monday.

Economy

Can the coronavirus epidemic cause a global economic crisis?

Health

Why are Wuhan returnees settled in the Bouches-du-Rhône?

  • Hong Kong
  • Japan
  • World
  • coronavirus
  • macao
  • China
  • Health