Medical staff working in an isolated intensive care unit in a hospital in Wuhan on February 6. Photo: AP.

Hubei also discovered 2,618 new infections, including 1,921 in the Wuhan capital alone, where the virus is believed to have originated from a wildlife market in early December. The total number of infections in the province so far is 29,631 cases.

The National Health Commission of China (NHC) then announced that the number of new deaths across mainland China was 97, bringing the total number of deaths to 908.

Thus, the total number of nCoV deaths globally is now 910, of which two cases have been recorded outside mainland China: a Wuhan man in the Philippines and a 39-year-old man in Hong Kong. . This figure outpaces the number of deaths caused by the SARS pandemic in 2002-2003, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) data.

The NHC also said there were 3,062 new infections, bringing the number of people infected in mainland China to 40,171 and the total number of nCoV infections globally to 40,553. 3,322 people have recovered.

The disease has spread to 31 provinces and cities in China and 26 countries and territories. WHO said on Feb. 8 that the reported daily number of nCoVs and deaths in China are "stable", but it is too early to tell whether the spread of the virus has peaked. .

Source: vnexpress