BEIJING, Feb 21 — The new coronavirus has infected about 500 people in China’s prisons, almost half outside the province at the centre of the epidemic, authorities said today, while South Korea reported 100 new cases that doubled its infections. The overall increase in new cases in China was...
Friday, 21 Feb 2020 07:53 PM MYT
According to official figures, China has had more than 75,400 cases of the coronavirus and 2,236 people have died of the disease — known as Covid-19 — most in Hubei and its capital Wuhan where the virus emerged in a wildlife market in December. “Covid-19 anxiety has risen to a new level amid concerns of virus outbreaks in Beijing and outside of China,” said Rodrigo Catril, a senior FX strategist at NAB.
Provincial officials did not say when the 271 cases in two jails in that province had been diagnosed but 230 of them were in a women’s prison in Wuhan, according to theData showed mainland China had 889 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections as of Feb. 20, up from 394 cases a day earlier. The death toll rose by 118, with most in Wuhan, which remains under virtual lockdown.
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