Coronavirus: 1,716 medical workers infected, six dead in China

coronavirus disease in China surpass 65,000, about 1,716 medical workers have been infected and six of them have lost their lives.

A medical staff member takes the temperature of a man at the Wuhan Red Cross Hospital in China on Jan. 25. HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images disease in China surpass 65,000, about 1,716 medical workers have been infected and six of them have lost their lives.

China’s National Health Commission said about 8,096 patients have been cured and discharged from hospital. There are still 8,969 suspected cases, however. Meanwhile, outside China, there have been more than 500 cases in nearly 30 countries. Four people have died – in France, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Japan.The new director of Hubei health commission, Wang Hesheng, said on Saturday that 217 medical teams comprising 25,633 members from across China were sent to central China’s Hubei Province since the beginning of the novel coronavirus outbreak.

Most of the cities in the country had been under lockdown since January after the detection of the disease across the country. This was one of the measures the government took to curb the spread of diseases.

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