China’s National Health Commission (NHC) today announced that the country recorded 71 more deaths due to nCoV, the lowest number in the past two weeks, bringing the total number of deaths in mainland China to 2,663.
Many Chinese provinces have had no new infections in the past few days.
Meanwhile, the number of nCoV infections in Korea and Italy has increased sharply in the past 24 hours.
The world currently records 80,088 cases of infection, 2,699 deaths and 27,571 people have been cured.
Quarantine staff sprayed disinfectant at the Korean parliament building on February 24.
The spread of Covid-19 continued unabated as Afghanistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait and Oman reported their first cases of infection.
However, there are concerns that the real situation is worse than the official announcement when an MP in Qom city said that 50 people have died from nCoV here since February 13.
WHO said yesterday that the Covid-19 epidemic is not yet a pandemic but has the potential to become a pandemic if countries do not cooperate to slow the spread.
The European Commission has spent 232 million euros (about $252 million) to help prevent the spread of the virus globally.
A team of medical experts from WHO and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control arrived in Italy, the largest outbreak in Europe.
WHO said it was concerned about the rapid increase in cases in Italy.
The Covid-19 epidemic has appeared in 35 countries and territories after starting in Wuhan, China in December 2019.
Hannah