The first death charged to the virus 2019-nCoV, appeared in December in the Chinese city of Wuham (center), had been announced on January 11. One month later, the epidemic from now on made 1,016 dead in continental China (except Hong Kong and Macao), according to an official death toll published this Tuesday.
The Chinese medical authorities gave a report on 108 new deaths in twenty-four hours, the heaviest daily death toll recorded this day, while the confirmed cases of contamination were established with more than 42,000.
On the other hand, as on several occasions since last week, the number of new daily cases (2,478) fell compared to the previous day
For his part, the Chinese president XI Jinping invited Monday to take "stronger and decisive measures to resolutely stop the dash of the contagion", after having gone in a residential district of Peking to visit a hospital, appearing for the first time carrying a mask.
While at the same time the majority of the airline companies stopped their flights towards continental China and several countries were closed to the travellers who come from there, the epidemic could henceforth accelerate through planet, fears the World Health Organization (WHO).
Apart from continental China, the virus killed two people, one in the Philippines and another in Hong Kong and more than 400 cases of contamination were confirmed in about thirty countries and territories.
London classified Monday February 11 new the coronavirus in "serious and imminent threat for the public health", in particular authorizing it to quarantine the contaminated people.
The European Ministers in charge of Health will meet in urgency next Thursday in Brussels to discuss the measures coordinated against the epidemic.
An international mission of WHO expert arrived in China, and it is led by Bruce Aylward, veteran of the fight against the Ebola epidemic, in order to study the origin of new the coronavirus and its effects.
WHO in addition announced to convene Tuesday and Wednesday at its head office of Geneva a meeting of experts to give a progress report on the search and the development for vaccines and treatments against the coronavirus.
Corneille Kinsala N’soki
(CKS/Yes)