Coronavirus death toll rises above 2,000

Mandatory Credit: Photo by TORU HANAI/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (10560898g) A passenger of the Diamond Princess cruise ship leaves the Daikoku Pier Cruise Terminal in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Japan, 19 February 2020. Passengers of the cruise ship started to disembark after a two-week-long quarantine period following the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak. A total of 542 passengers and crew were tested positive for Covid-19. The disease caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been officially named COVID-19 by the World Health Organization (WHO). The outbreak, which originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has so far killed more than 2,000 people with over 75,000 infected worldwide, mostly in China. First passengers of quarantined cruise ship disembark, in Japan, Yokohama – 19 Feb 2020

More than 2,000 people have died from the novel coronavirus across the globe, according to the latest figures released Tuesday.

China’s National Health Commission (NHC) reported Tuesday that 136 more people died of coronavirus in mainland China, 132 of which occurred in Hubei province.

The latest figures bring the total number of deaths in mainland China to 2,004, and the global death toll to 2,009. There have been five deaths reported outside of mainland China, with Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines and France all recording one death each.

The global number of confirmed coronavirus cases now stands at 75,117, with the majority of cases in mainland China.

China’s National Health Commission is expected to release numbers for all of China’s provinces later.

-CNN

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