The daily toll of new infections in the Corona virus in China declined for a third day in a row yesterday, while WHO Director Tidros Adhanum Gebresos warned that it was "impossible" to predict how the spread of the epidemic would develop.

The death toll from the emerging corona virus in China reached 1665 people yesterday, with the death of an additional 142 people.

Global anxiety remains high in the virus, which appeared in central China's Hubei Province in December, with the first death recorded outside Asia on Monday.

More than 68,000 people have been infected in China, but the number of daily cases of the pandemic "COFED-19" has continued to decline.

In Hubei, the epicenter of the disease, the number of new infections fell for the third consecutive day, while the number of deaths equaled those recorded, the day before yesterday, at 139 cases.

In other regions of the country, the number of new infections continued to decline for the 12th consecutive day.

However, the Director-General of the World Health Organization has warned that it is "impossible to predict which direction the epidemic will develop."

He added during the Munich Security Conference: "We call on all governments, all companies and all media, to work with us to maintain the required level of preparedness, without fueling hysteria."

The Chinese authorities are imposing a stone on Hubei Province, which is inhabited by 56 million people, as it is cut off from the rest of the country, as part of efforts to contain the spread of the epidemic.

And despite China's assertion that the epidemic is under control, the Hubei authorities announced yesterday the strengthening of movement restrictions throughout the province.

These additional measures include "closing" apartment complexes and villages to unnecessary visitors, "tightening control" over residents leaving them, and recommending them to purchase large quantities of goods to meet their daily needs.

Non-essential public places will be closed, and, for residential areas and workplaces where confirmed cases have emerged, quarantine is imposed for 14 days.

The Hubei Provincial Government said it would impose a ban on the movement of vehicles across the region to curb the spread of the disease.

She added, in a published official document, that the vehicles exempted from the ban are police and ambulances, and those that transport essential goods that are linked to public services.

The President of China knew about "Corona" early

An internal speech published yesterday in the People's Daily newspaper of the Communist Party showed that Chinese President Xi Jinping was aware of the outbreak of the Corona virus weeks before he publicly dealt with the problem, and urged that decisive action be taken to stop it. In a speech on February 4, Xi said that he "issued demands to act to prevent and control the epidemic of the Coronavirus, on January 7th." Despite Shi’s orders, officials in Wuhan have reacted slowly, notably setting up a collective banquet for 40,000 families, on January 18th, in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book. Beijing - dpa

Taiwan records first death from Corona virus

The Taiwan Ministry of Health has announced the first death from the "Covid-19" virus (SK) on its soil.

The Taiwan Minister of Health and Welfare, Chen Shih-chung, told a televised press conference that the deceased was in his sixties and was taken to hospital on February 3, due to shortness of breath, which led to his diagnosis of pneumonia, and he died the day before yesterday. .

He added that the deceased was a taxi driver, and he had no history of traveling abroad, except that he was working with returning travelers from China, Hong Kong and Macau. Taipei - dpa

The first 3 Israeli cases of Corona

The Israeli Ministry of Health stated that the first cases of coronavirus infection were identified among passengers on a cruise ship off Japan.

Yesterday, the Bloomberg News Agency quoted the ministry as saying that three Israelis had tested positive for the virus and had been transferred from the Diamond Princess ship to a hospital in Japan. The ministry stated that it was informed that the cases are simple. Tokyo - d

WHO warns: It is impossible to predict which direction the epidemic will develop.