COVID-19: US military prepping for coronavirus pandemic

The numbers keep rising: The coronavirus death toll has risen to 1486 with a total of 65,213 confirmed cases, making an increase on yesterday’s whopping jump. China’s Hubei province reported an extra 4823 coronavirus infection cases and 116 new deaths, in the second day after the region at the centre of the outbreak changed its method for counting infections. This was lower than the 14,840 cases that Hubei added when it first started counting patients with the new method. Yesterday the coronavirus broke a tragic record with the deadly illness killing 242 people in China in a single day.

 The 242 deaths from Hubei were more than double the announcement of the previous day. The commission said that it had begun including cases diagnosed through new clinical methods from Thursday.  WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned any apparent slowdown in the spread of the epidemic should be viewed with “extreme caution.” “This outbreak could still go in any direction,” he told a briefing in Geneva. –News.com.au