Virus Death Toll

• COVID-19: Italy’s death toll hits 29 while total cases top 1,100

  Authorities reported that Italy's total confirmed cases grew to 1,128, a 27 per cent increase from 24 hours earlier.

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  Feb 29, 2020
  
• COVID-19 infects 234 people in 2 Chinese prisons, top officials fired

  The infections found in the two jails made up most of the 258 newly confirmed cases outside the central province of Hubei, the epicentre of the virus.

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  Feb 21, 2020
  
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• COVID-19: China reports decline in new cases as total deaths number 2,236

  New infections in China have been falling for days, although changes in how it counts cases have caused doubts about the true trajectory of the epidemic.

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  Feb 20, 2020
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• COVID-19: Death toll tops 2,000 while new cases in China decrease for 2nd day

  The updated figures on the COVID-19 illness for mainland China bring the total for cases to 74,185 and deaths to 2,004. New cases have fallen to under 2,000 daily for the past two days.

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  Feb 18, 2020
• Death toll from COVID-19 rises to 1,868, according to latest figures from China

  The largest number of cases outside China is among passengers and crew of the Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined at a port near Tokyo.

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  Feb 17, 2020
• China reports 5,000 new COVID-19 cases, cruise ship passengers disembark in Cambodia

  The number of infections was down sharply on the previous day, when a change in the methods of diagnosing patients led to a record spike in cases.

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  Feb 13, 2020
• Coronavirus cases in China jump to nearly 6,000, surpassing SARS outbreak

  The number of confirmed cases jumped to 5,974, surpassing the 5,327 in mainland China during the SARS outbreak in 2002-2003.

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  Jan 28, 2020