Coronavirus deaths reach 563, with fresh cases on stricken cruise ship off Japan

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in China has reached 563, as health experts prepared to meet in Geneva next week in an attempt to develop a vaccine and Japan reported 10 more infections among passengers aboard a luxury cruise liner quarantined outside Yokohama.

Chinese authorities said on Thursday the death toll had risen by 73 in the previous 24 hours – the third record daily rise in a row – with 70 of the deaths recorded in Hubei province, the centre of the outbreak.

Hospitals in Wuhan, the Hubei city where the virus is thought to have originated, said they were struggling to find enough beds for thousands of newly infected patients.

China’s national health commission said that, as of midnight Wednesday, there were 28,018 confirmed cases throughout the country – a rise of 3,694 and the biggest 24-hour rise – as well as 24,702 suspected cases.

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[Wellstone ruled]

1. Just got a text from

our Niece's Son who Teaches in Vietnam. He claims a new round of Swine Flu is just ramping up in China .

[Indykatie]

2. Wow. The Number of Deaths Sure Escalated Quickly.

At this rate of infection they are gonna need more than that extra 1000 hospital beds.

[Blue_true]

3. Meanwhile, 20,000 people in the USA contracted the flu yeaterday, while 110 died

From the flu. People worry about a virus that kills 2% of hospitalized people, while ignoring one in their backyard that kills 5.5% of hospitalized people, with one strain particularly deadly among people younger than 25 years old.

I prefer to panic about stuff that is relative to me.