The number of deaths due to coronavirus infection in China rose to 2004, while the number of confirmed infections exceeded 74,000, and the past few days have witnessed a relatively low number of infected people.
Hubei Province - the epidemic in the center of the country - recorded 132 deaths in the past 24 hours, and the Hubei Health Committee said in its daily update of the death toll and injury count that in addition to these deaths, it recorded 1749 new infections, in the lowest daily death toll in a week.
The Chinese authorities said 1,824 people were recovering and discharged from hospitals on Tuesday.
Outside China, there are about nine hundred people infected with the virus to date, spread over nearly thirty countries, and only five of them have died.
Today, Wednesday, the second death occurred in Hong Kong, while South Korea registered 15 new cases, and the South Korean Yonhap News Agency reported that the total number of injuries in the country rose to 46.
Last Monday, WHO Director-General Tidros Adhanum Gebresus announced that, according to a study conducted by the "Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention" that included more than 72 thousand people infected with "Covid 19" caused by the virus, more than 80% of patients have a benign type. From this disease.
The study also showed that the death rate of the new corona virus is very small in those under the age of 40, as it does not exceed 0.2%, and then gradually increases with age.