The number of victims of the new coronavirus in China grew by 54 people, in the district of Hubei, died 13 employees and 323 contracted, inform the local print edition of Global Times.

first mentioned About 41 dead and 1372 cases of infection.

in addition, the 1st case of infection with coronavirus recorded in Canada. Cases, according to the TV channel CBC, arrived on 22 January from the Chinese city of Wuhan, which is a hotbed of the virus.

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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