China Reports Another 97 Virus Deaths, Nearly 650 New Cases
Umer Jamshaid Published February 23, 2020 | 09:10 AM
Beijing, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Feb, 2020 ) :China's death toll from the coronavirus epidemic rose to 2,442 on Sunday after the government said 97 more people had died, all but one of them in the epicentre of Hubei province.
The National Health Commission also confirmed another 648 new cases in China.
The vast majority of both deaths and new infections were in the hard-hit Hubei provincial capital of Wuhan, where the virus first emerged in December.
China's total infections reached 76,936, the commission said in its daily update.
The coronavirus has spread to more than 25 countries and is causing mounting alarm due to new pockets of outbreak in Europe, the middle East, and Asia.
China's numbers of daily new infections are well down from the outbreak's early height.
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