China opens new hospitals for virus patients, deaths top 560
Source: AP
By KEN MORITSUGU
BEIJING (AP) — China finished building a second new hospital Thursday to isolate and treat patients infected with the new coronavirus and moved people with milder symptoms into makeshift quarantine centers at sports arenas, exhibition halls and other public spaces. Testing of a new antiviral drug, meanwhile, was set to begin on patients.
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The number of people infected globally rose to more than 28,200 and the death toll climbed past 560, with the overwhelming majority of cases in China. More than 200 people with the illness have been reported in over two-dozen other countries, including Japan, Singapore, Thailand, South Korea and the United States.
In this Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, photo, a medical worker in a protective suit walks by patients who diagnosed with the coronaviruses settle at a temporary hospital which transformed from an exhibition center in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. Ten more people were sickened with a new virus aboard one of two quarantined cruise ships with some 5,400 passengers and crew aboard, health officials in Japan said Thursday, as China reported 73 more deaths and announced that the first group of patients were expected to start taking a new antiviral drug. (Chinatopix via AP)
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