The Philippines became the first country outside China to report a death from the new coronavirus
, authorities in Wuhan, the city at the heart of the outbreak, announced plans to quarantine all suspected patients and those known to have been in close contact with a confirmed case., the capital of Hubei province.Within mainland China, the death toll rose by 45 on Saturday to 304, while the number of confirmed cases increased by 2,590 to 14,380, according to China’s National Health Commission.
in Wuhan may have been infected with the new coronavirus. The research was based on the assumption that each infected person could have passed the virus on to 2.68 others. “Patients shall cooperate,” it said in a statement. “Whoever refuses to cooperate will be subject to enforcement by the police.” Meanwhile, hospitals and medical centers in Wuhan and across Hubei are coming under huge pressure as patient numbers continue to soar.
Health authorities had previously thought that the primary way for the disease to spread was through respiratory droplet transmission and contact, including people touching their faces after exposure to a surface contaminated with the virus. But the discovery in Shenzhen suggests there may be other ways for the deadly contagion to move from one person to another.
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