"Positive" developments for Corona and talk of "benign type"

China announced earlier that the death toll from the emerging corona virus has risen to two thousand, but today, Wednesday, the rate of new infections has continued to decrease, in an indication of significance.

The National Health Committee said the Chinese mainland had recorded 1,749 new cases of coronavirus, Tuesday, down from the previous day's 1886 cases, and Tuesday's cases represented the lowest rate of new infections since January 29.

This brings the total number of confirmed infections on the mainland to 74,185 cases so far.

Declining numbers of infections indicate an assumed efficacy over China's tough measures to contain the virus, which has raised global concerns.

On Monday, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanum Gebresus, announced that, according to a study conducted by the "Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention", which involved more than 72 thousand people infected with Covid-19 disease caused by the virus, it has been proven that more than 80% of patients are infected With a benign form of this disease.

Likewise, the study showed that the death rate of the new coronavirus is negligible in those under the age of 40, as it does not exceed 0.2 percent, and then increases gradually with age.

The number of deaths from the virus on the Chinese mainland reached 2004 through the end of Tuesday, an increase of 136 deaths from the previous day.

Outside mainland China, the number of people infected with the virus has reached nearly 900 today, spread over nearly 30 countries, and only 6 of them died after it was announced in Hong Kong, Wednesday morning, that the second death from the virus had been recorded for a 70-year-old man.

The man was already suffering from latent illness, and he is one of 62 people confirmed to have the virus in the city.

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