The number of people infected with a new type of coronavirus in China increased to 1975, of which 56 died, said state Committee on the problems of health.
The day before officially declared 1287 ill and 41 dead.
Another 324 people are in a state of crisis. In addition, 2684 people suspected infection with a new type of coronavirus.
The outbreak is recorded in 30 regions across the country, authorities of Shanghai, where live more than 24 million people, on Sunday morning announced the first died from a new type of coronavirus. According to the final data, in have already been confirmed 40 cases of infection.
Outbreak of pneumonia of unknown causes in Wuhan were announced on 31 December. How figured out the experts, the causative agent of the disease was a new type of coronavirus - 2019-nCoV.
The first cases were related to the seafood market, it is expected that the source of the virus could become a snake, which in China often take in food. It was later announced that the virus is transmitted from person to person.
Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus in China on the first day weekend imposed the highest level of emergency response in public health in 25 provinces, special administrative regions and cities. The current territory is inhabited by over 1.2 billion people.
outside mainland China, the cases already recorded in the total number of countries, including USA, Thailand, France and Australia.
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