A 44-year-old man, from Wuhan, China, the center of the outbreak, died in hospital in the Philippines after developing 'severe pneumonia.'
He said,"I would like to emphasize that this is an imported case with no evidence of local transmission. We are currently working with the Chinese Embassy to ensure the dignified management of the remains according to national and international standards to contain the disease."
Aside from the two confirmed cases, health officials said as of Saturday the county had a total of 36 patients under investigation with 23 hospitalized and held in quarantine. "The new developments warrant a more diligent approach in containing the threats of the 2019-nCoV. The Department of Health is continuously improving and scaling up its public health measures and reminds the public to remain calm and vigilant," Duque added., illustrates the spread of the virus around world as of January 30.
A graphic provided by Statista shows the global spread of the novel coronavirus by country as of January 30, according to Johns Hopkins University.The latest figures from China's National Health Commission showed 14,380 people are now infected with the virus across mainland China. As of Sunday morning the death toll had climbed to 304 and officials reported a massive spike in new cases, with more than 2,000 reported in the county on Saturday.
Outside China, cases of the coronavirus have been confirmed in 23 countries, including the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada, Italy and Germany. Of the seven confirmed cases of 2019-nCoV in the U.S., all of the patients had traveled to China recently, except for a man in Chicago who contracted the virus from his wife after she visited China.
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