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The number of deaths from coronavirus exceeded the number of Sars who died from the epidemic
The number of deaths from the outbreak of the new coronavirus exceeded the number of atidy pneumonia who died from the epidemic (SARS), which also erupted in China in 2002-2003. Then 774 people were killed from it, the number of those killed from coronavirus 2019-NCOV today is 811 people, writes WSJ.
The Chinese Health Commission announced that she recorded a record number of deaths from coronavirus - 89 people died from it a day. Thus, the new coronavirus overtook SARS not only in the number of sick, but also in the number of deaths.
- The mortality from coronavirus is much lower than it was from SARS: in the province of Hubei and in Jun (epicenter of the spread of the virus) it is 1.3% and 4.1%, respectively. About 0.2%mortality throughout China. During the SARS epidemic, mortality was 9.56%.
- Also, the National Health Commission of China on Saturday confirmed 2,656 new cases of infection - a decrease compared to 3,399 on Friday. The total number of cases reached 37 198 people: for comparison, only 8,098 people infected the SARS virus.
- The total number of recovered patients is 2,649 people.
- Despite the fact that China declares that the number of new cases of infection with the virus has fallen, the situation may change when people start to return to work on Monday.