Middle East respiratory syndrome

By midnight local time in China, the number of patients with pneumonia caused by a new type of coronavirus is 42,638,000 people, the number of the confirmed deaths is 1016, the State Committee on Health reported.

New infections increased by 2478, with fatal cases increasing by 108, with 103 in the outbreak of contagion in Hubei province and 6 in other areas.

Turkey on Feb. 10 raised its travel warning for the new coronavirus, advising people not to visit Mongolia.

The foreign ministry said in a statement that owing to the close ties and travel between China and Mongolia, the risk of a coronavirus outbreak in Mongolia is high.

The death toll in China from the novel coronavirus outbreak climbed to 812, the country's National Health Commission (NHC) said on Feb. 9

Authorities said 37,198 confirmed cases have been reported and 89 people have died and more than 2,600 new cases have been detected in the last 24 hours.

Greek health authorities were briefly on alert on Friday after a man with symptoms resembling those of the novel coronavirus which first emerged in Wuhan, China and has killed more than 630 people, was admitted to the Evangelismos Hospital.
However the 22-year-old man tested negative for the coronavirus.

A third case of the new coronavirus has been confirmed in Italy. An Italian citizen tested positive. He is one of fifty people who were evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan last week.

73 new coronavirus deaths were reported in one day in China alone. Thus, the number of deaths in the country increased to 636. There are more than 31 400 infected people worldwide.

A Chinese doctor, of whose death contradictory reports have been given today, has died from the effects of coronavirus in the hospital where he was treated

Ten more people on a quarantined cruise liner in a Japanese port have tested positive for coronavirus, officials said on Feb. 6, as the virus death toll in mainland China hit 563, with almost 3,000 new cases reported.

he death toll in China from the novel coronavirus outbreak has climbed to 491, the country's National Health Commission (NHC) said on Feb. 4.

In a statement, the commission said 24,324 confirmed cases have been reported so far and 65 people have died in the last 24 hours.

The Greek government is stepping up measures to tackle the possible arrival in the country of the new, or "novel" coronavirus, now called 2019-nCoV, as experts warn that it could reach the country within the next three weeks. 

The death toll in China from the novel coronavirus outbreak climbed to 425, the country's National Health Commission (NHC) said on Feb. 4.

In a statement, the commission said it has so far received a total of 20,438 confirmed cases, adding a total of 64 people died over the last 24 hours.