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30 January 2020
The death toll rose to 170 in the new virus outbreak in China, "great concern” that the disease is starting to spread among non Chinese Nationals
Coronavirus: Death toll in China surges to 170, transmission a concern
THE STAR
Thursday, 30 Jan 202010:27 AM MYT
BEIJING (AP): The death toll rose to 170 in the new virus outbreak in China on Thursday (Jan 30) as foreign evacuees from the worst-hit region begin returning home under close observation and world health officials expressed "great concern” that the disease is starting to spread between people outside of China.
Thursday’s figures cover the previous 24 hours and represent an increase of 38 deaths and 1,737 cases for a total of 7,711 confirmed cases.
Of the new deaths, 37 were in the epicenter of the outbreak in Hubei province and one in the southwestern province of Sichuan.
The news comes as the 195 Americans evacuated from Wuhan, the Hubei province city of 11 million where the outbreak originated, are undergoing three days of testing and monitoring at a Southern California military base to make sure they do not show signs of the virus.
A group of 210 Japanese evacuees from Wuhan landed Thursday at Tokyo’s Haneda airport on a second government chartered flight, according to the foreign ministry.
Reports said nine of those aboard the flight showed signs of cough and fever. Three of the 206 Japanese who returned on Wednesday (Jan 29) tested positive for the new coronavirus, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said during a parliamentary session.
France, New Zealand, Australia and other countries are also pulling out their citizens or making plans to do so.
The World Health Organisation's Dr Michael Ryan said the few cases of human-to-human spread of the virus outside China - in Japan, Germany, Canada and Vietnam - were of "great concern” and were part of the reason the UN health agency’s director-general reconvening a committee of experts on Thursday to assess whether the outbreak should be declared a global emergency.
The new virus has now infected more people in China than were sickened during the 2002-2003 SARS outbreak.
Dr Ryan spoke at a news conference in Geneva Wednesday after returning from a trip to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other senior government leaders.
He said China was taking "extraordinary measures in the face of an extraordinary challenge" posed by the outbreak.
To date, about 99% of the cases are in China. Dr Ryan estimated the death rate of the new virus at 2%, but said the figure was very preliminary.
With fluctuating numbers of cases and deaths, scientists are only able to produce a rough estimate of the fatality rate and it’s likely many milder cases of the virus are being missed.
In comparison, the SARS virus killed about 10% of people who caught it. The new virus is from the coronavirus family, which includes those that can cause the common cold as well as more serious illnesses such as SARS and MERS.
Scientists say there are many questions to be answered about the new virus, including just how easily it spreads and how severe it is.
In a report published Wednesday, Chinese researchers suggested that person-to-person spread among close contacts occurred as early as mid-December.
"Considerable efforts” will be needed to control the spread if this ratio holds up elsewhere, researchers wrote in the report, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
More than half of the cases in which symptoms began before Jan 1 were tied to a seafood market, but only 8% of cases after that have been, researchers found.
They reported the average incubation period was five days. - AP
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