China coronavirus toll reaches 2,835

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China’s health authorities reported, on Saturday, 427 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus infection and 47 deaths over the last 24 hours.

The China’s National Health Commission said it had received 79,251 reports of confirmed cases and 2,835 deaths in 31 provincial-level regions on the Chinese mainland, and in all 39,002 patients had been cured and discharged from hospital.

The new coronavirus “COVID-19”, as named by the World Health Organization (WHO), emerged in late December in the Chinese city of Wuhan in a wild animals’ market.

The WHO has previously classified the coronavirus as a “pandemic” and declared a public health emergency of international concern.

//Petra//