COVID-19: Global coronavirus cases top 69,000

COVID-19: Global coronavirus cases top 69,000

Beijing's latest figures showed 68,500 cases of the illness and 1,665 deaths, most of them in Hubei.. The number of new cases of a coronavirus in China fell slightly on Sunday, more than three weeks after the outbreak's epicentre was locked down, and a Chinese tourist died from the virus in France, the first fatality in Europe.. ( Coronavirus: Everything you need to know about the Covid-19 Wuhan virus outbreak). The National Health Commission on Sunday reported 2,009 new cases, down from 2,641 the previous day, and 142 new deaths, just one lower than the 143 the previous day.. The virus is believed to have an incubation period of 14 days which would appear to indicate it has been spreading since the lockdown was imposed.". Outside mainland China, there have been about 500 cases in some two dozen countries and territories, with four deaths - in Japan, Chinese-ruled Hong Kong, the Philippines and now France.. An 80-year-old Chinese man died at a Paris hospital of a lung infection due to the flu-like virus, authorities said on Saturday.". We have to get our health system ready to face a possible pandemic propagation of the virus, and the spreading of the virus