Health Desk- 10th Feb,
2020: Mainland China has reported another rise in cases of the new virus
after a sharp decline the previous day, while the number of deaths grow by 97
to 908, with at least two more outside the country.
On Monday, China's health ministry said another 3,062 cases
had been reported over the previous 24 hours, raising the Chinese mainland's
total to 40,171.
Earlier, France closed two schools after five British
visitors contracted the virus at a ski resort. Malaysia, South Korea and
Vietnam reported one new case each.
Meanwhile, the mother of a physician who died last week in
the hardest-hit city of Wuhan said she wants an explanation from authorities
who reprimanded her son for warning about the virus.
Monday's rise was a turnaround from a significant reduction
in new cases reported Sunday, 2,656, down by about 20% from the 3,399 new cases
reported in the previous 24-hour period. That had prompted optimism that the
"joint control mechanism of different regions and the strict prevention
and control measures have worked," in the words of a spokesman for the
National Health Commission, Mi Feng.
Also Sunday, new cases were reported in Japan, South Korea,
Vietnam, Malaysia, the U.K. and Spain. More than 360 cases have been confirmed
outside mainland China.
"Dramatic reductions" in the pace of the disease's
spread should begin this month if containment works, Dr. Ian Lipkin, director
of Columbia University's Center for Infection and Immunity, said in an online
news conference on Sunday. He assisted the World Health Organization and
Chinese authorities during the outbreak of SARS, or severe acute respiratory
syndrome.
Warmer weather will reduce the virus's ability to spread and
bring people out of enclosed spaces where it is transmitted more easily, Lipkin
said.
However, he said, if new cases spike as people return to
work after the Lunar New Year holiday, which was extended to reduce the risk of
spreading the virus, then "we'll know we're in trouble."
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