SARS-Like Virus Death Toll Rises To 17

The death toll from a new SARS-like China virus that has infected hundreds rose to 17, authorities said on Wednesday. Advertisement Officials in Hubei, the central … Continue reading SARS-Like Virus Death Toll Rises To 17

By Ignatius Igwe

Updated January 22, 2020

Medical staff members carry a patient into the Jinyintan hospital, where patients infected by a mysterious SARS-like virus are being treated, in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province on January 18, 2020.

The death toll from a new SARS-like China virus that has infected hundreds rose to 17, authorities said on Wednesday.

Officials in Hubei, the central Chinese province whose capital is the epicentre of the epidemic, said at a televised news conference that the total number of people in the region infected with the new coronavirus was 444.

AFP