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.
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, during a press briefing held to commemorate the 2020 World Cancer Day said that the number of deaths caused by cancer in the country annually is 72,000 while about 102,000 new cases of cancer are recorded annually.
Wife of the Ondo State governor, Mrs. Betty Anyawu-Akeredolu, on Thursday, lamented that the country ranked among countries with the poorest cancer care and control system. Speaking at the 2020 World Cancer Day in Akure, she pleaded that the government “must act without delay.” Akeredolu said that cancer “hitherto seen as a distant disease is now at our doorsteps causing unimaginable tears and sorrow in many families in Nigeria.”
