Corona threatens the world forty thousand injuries and a thousand deaths

The death toll from the epidemic is now much greater than that of the SARS epidemic.

In addition, the World Health Organization announced that a UN medical team is on its way to China to find out ways to combat the virus.

Meanwhile, Huoshen Shan Hospital in Wuhan, China, received a new number of patients, a hospital that the authorities built to deal with the spread of the new virus within just ten days.

In a related context, a video clip from inside the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which has now turned into a quarantine place off the coast of Japan, showed that life inside the ship was proceeding normally, despite the discovery that about sixty-three people were infected with the Corona virus, out of about three hundred people who were subjected. to examine.

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In the meantime, three thousand six hundred people who were held for five days on a cruise ship off the coast of Hong Kong were allowed to disembark on Sunday, after the region's authorities verified that its crew members were not infected with the emerging Corona virus.

And the health authorities in the former British colony announced the lifting of the quarantine measures they imposed on the ship’s 1800 passengers, and its 1800 crew members.

The authorities had imposed these measures after it was suspected that some crew members had been infected with the emerging corona virus during a previous flight.

It was found that three Chinese passengers on board the ship during a previous trip to Vietnam between January 19 and 24 had contracted the infection.

Hong Kong authorities prevented the ship from sailing upon its arrival to its shores on Wednesday and subjected its crew to medical examinations.

The passengers were not subjected to analyzes because there was no direct sensory contact between them and the three Chinese passengers infected with corona.

Since its appearance in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late December, the new Corona virus has infected 37 people in mainland China and 36 people in Hong Kong. And resulted in the death of more than 800 people, the vast majority in China.

The Hong Kong authorities had announced that they would keep the ship's passengers and crew in quarantine until Tuesday, given that it takes four days for the results of medical examinations to be issued.

But Hong Kong port health official Leung Yeo-hong confirmed to AFP that "the results of all medical examinations were issued this afternoon, and they are all negative." He said that it was not necessary to subject the passengers to examinations due to the low risk of infection, and therefore the ship's passengers and crew would not have to remain in quarantine after leaving Hong Kong.

Since Saturday, the Hong Kong authorities have imposed a two-week quarantine on all arrivals from mainland China. The authorities verify the quarantine application through daily phone calls and random visits to the people concerned.

The Minister of Health in this semi-autonomous region confirmed on Sunday morning that 468 people have so far received orders to stay in their homes, hotels or shelters opened by the authorities for this purpose.