The total number of cases increased by almost 3,400 to 34,546.
of the new virus and came at a time of increased criticism of the way Beijing is handling the epidemic. Very little is known so far about the U.S. citizen who died of the virus on Thursday in Wuhan, the city at the center of the outbreak. The person was around 60 years old and died at a hospital.
The outrage inside China comes as experts abroad were still trying to get access to China. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been trying to send a team of experts but has not been invited to enter China. The World Health Organization tried to be diplomatic and said they were just “sorting out arrangements” but for now its experts haven’t been allowed to assess the situation personally. U.S. experts are included on a list proposed by the WHO.
Officials think that China’s top leaders may not be eager to accept foreign assistance out of fear that it would be interpreted as a sign that China needs outside help to deal with the epidemic. For now, experts say that it is still difficult to know just how deadly the new virus is and how quickly it is spreading. “It is hard to say how lethal this novel coronavirus infection is,” Allen Cheng, an infectious diseases expert at Monash University in Melbourne,.
Even though most of the cases have been in China, around two dozen countries have reported cases, including five British nationals who were . They contracted the virus after they stayed in a the same ski chalet as someone who had been in Singapore. None of them were in a serious condition.Readers like you make our work possible. Help us continue to provide the reporting, commentary and criticism you won’t find anywhere else.
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