Number of confirmed coronavirus cases in China tops 24,000

중국 신종코로나 급확산…사망 490명•확진 2만4천명 넘어,…세계 감염자 수는?

China confirms 65 more deaths from the Hubei province on Wednesday.
This brings the total number of coronavirus deaths to 4-hundred-90.
And what's more concerning is that, other countries are reporting more coronavirus cases as well.
Kim Mok-yeon has the latest.
China's National Health Commission announced that as of Tuesday evening, the total number of deaths caused by the coronavirus had reached at least 490 and that more than 24,000 people have tested positive for the virus.
It was an increase of at least 65 deaths and more than 3,000 new infections from the previous day, and was the most of either figure recorded in a single day.
All the deaths reported on Tuesday came from Hubei province, where the outbreak is the most serious.
Amid ongoing efforts to contain the virus, China has finished building a new hospital in Wuhan.
The first batch of coronavirus-infected patients arrived at the Huoshenshan hospital on Tuesday.
For the past week, Wuhan has been building two hospitals with thousands of beds for confirmed patients to help ease the shortage of beds in the city.
The second hospital is set to be completed on Wednesday.
Outside of China, more than 220 confirmed cases of the coronavirus have been reported in at least 25 countries and territories.
There has also been one death from the virus in Hong Kong and one death in the Philippines.
As of Tuesday, Hong Kong has seen at least 18 confirmed cases, while the Philippines has two.
According to NHK, Japan is the country with the highest number of confirmed cases outside of China with 33 cases, after 10 people on a cruise ship tested positive for the virus.
Thailand has 25 confirmed patients, Singapore 22, and South Korea has 18 cases of the virus.
Ten cases each have been confirmed in Malaysia, Macau and Vietnam. And there are six in France, five in the United Arab Emirates, and three in India.
The United States saw 11 confirmed cases after two new cases have been reported from California on Monday.
Kim Mok-yeon, Arirang News.

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