Health

 The deadly Coronavirus sweeping across Asia has killed up to 97 persons in just one day. So far, it has killed over 1,000 people in China.

The number of death from the corona Virus, a deadly disease that has hit China has risen to 811 in the Mainland, the Chinese National Health Commission disclosed.

A Japanese man with a suspected coronavirus infection has died in hospital in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the Japanese foreign ministry said Saturday. Punch reports that the victim, in his 60s had been hospitalised due to severe pneumonia and the hospital reported his death to the Japanese embassy in China.

Five British nationals including a child have tested positive for the new coronavirus in France. The health minister in a statement issued on Saturday said they had all stayed at the same ski chalet. From the report, France has now detected a total of 11 cases of the novel Coronavirus, and the new “cluster” is centred on a Briton who had returned from Singapore and stayed in Contamines-Montjoie, near Mont Blanc in the French Alps, Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said.

Li Wenliang, a doctor who was among the first to warn about the coronavirus outbreak, has been reported dead.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the coronavirus outbreak cannot be described as pandemic even though it remains a global public health emergency.