China Reports Virus Death Toll Rises To 811, Surpassing SARS

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In this Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, photo, workers in protective suits ride on a truck carrying medical supplies into Huoshenshan temporary hospital built for patients who diagnosed with 2019-nCoV in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. The number of confirmed cases of the new virus has risen again in China on Saturday as the ruling Communist Party faced anger and recriminations from the public over the death of a doctor who was threatened by police after trying to sound the alarm about the disease over a month ago. (Chinatopix via AP)

BEIJING (AP) — Mainland China has reported the virus death toll has risen to 811, surpassing SARS fatalities in the 2002-2003 outbreak.

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China’s National Health Commission on Sunday says the total cases of the new virus have increased to to 37,198.

The outbreak of SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, killed 774 people and infected more than 8,000 worldwide. Like the new virus, it also originated in China.


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ANON21
ANON21
4 years ago

Whatever the Chinese government says you need to multiply it by at least 10 times. That’s what they say. It’s a lot worse than they’re admitting to

AH
AH
4 years ago

It’s still several orders of magnitude less than the number of victims of Communism. Yet stringent measures are being taken to prevent the virus from coming here, while admirers and apologists and promoters of Communism are all over the place in the educational system, the media and in politics.