An American citizen diagnosed with the new coronavirus has died in China in what appears to be the first death of an American from the virus that has sickened tens of thousands of people in China and killed more than 700, a US embassy spokesperson says.
and a person in Hong Kong, health officials said, bringing global deaths to at least 724.
In this Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, photo, a nurse takes notes in the isolation ward for 2019-nCoV patients at a hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province.More than 34,500 cases have been confirmed in mainland China as of Saturday morning, the health commission said. Wuhan and Hubei province, where the city is located, is at the center of the coronavirus outbreak. The virus has been detected in more than 20 other countries, including in the United States.
Twelve people in the U.S. have been confirmed to have the virus, but some of them have been released from the hospital, including a Chicago couple who are now home.Also Saturday, Japan's foreign ministry said on its website that a Japanese citizen in his 60s who had been hospitalized with severe pneumonia had died at a medical facility in Wuhan.
The ministry said that according to the Chinese facility where the Japanese citizen was, he was"highly suspected" of having the novel coronavirus but because of the difficulty in confirming that, the man’s death was being classified as"viral pneumonia."Phil Helsel
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