China virus death toll reaches 1,110; world warned of 'very grave threat'
The
number of fatalities from China's new coronavirus
epidemic jumped to 1,110 nationwide on Wednesday after hard-hit Hubei
province reported 94 new deaths.
In
its daily update, Hubei's health commission also confirmed another
1,638 new cases in the central province, where the outbreak emerged
in December. There are now more than 44,200 confirmed cases across
China, based on previously released figures from the government.
The
new virus is believed to have emerged last year in a market that
sells wild animals in Hubei's capital Wuhan, the city at the centre
of the outbreak. The virus was officially named "COVID-19"
at a conference in Geneva held by the World Health Organization,
where the body's chief said countries had a chance of stopping its
global spread.
WHO
head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday that although 99
percent of cases are in China, where it remains "very much an
emergency," it also "holds a very grave threat for the rest
of the world." He urged countries to share data in order to
further research the disease.
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