Yesterday, the Chinese health authorities announced that the number of new infections with the new Corona virus rose to 34 thousand people, and the number of deaths to 722 people, and recorded within 24 hours 86 additional deaths, the largest number of deaths in one day of this virus.
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region began enforcing severe quarantine measures to tackle the new Coronavirus, with 320 cases confirmed in 30 countries and regions, and two deaths in Hong Kong and the Philippines.
The new Corona virus outcome is close to the number of SARS deaths (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), which reached 774 people in the world between 2002 and 2003, but exceeded the death toll from SARS in mainland China and Hong Kong, where 650 people died of SARS.
Hong Kong began yesterday to impose harsh quarantine measures to tackle the new Coronavirus, and every person who currently goes to it from other places in China must undergo a two-week isolation in his home, hotel or any other place of residence, provided that he encounters those who violate this The measure is six months imprisonment.
During a visit to central China's Wuhan city, the epicenter of the virus, Deputy Prime Minister Sun Shunlan ordered local authorities to adopt "wartime" measures and sweep neighborhoods in search of fever, and this and Hubei Province, where they have been cut off from the world, are still two weeks away.