Current updates of Corona Virus!! Highly Alarming Situation

Here are the few current updates 19th February 2020.

—American passengers who had been stuck on a cruise ship off the coast of Japan for nearly two weeks were evacuated on Sunday (Feb. 16) and have now arrived in the U.S. Fourteen of those passengers tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of U.S. cases to 29.

—Director of hospital in Wuhan has died from COVID-19. About 1,716 medical workers have COVID-19 (1,502 of those cases in Hubei Province), and six of these workers have died, the Times reports.

—The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting COVID-19 is up to 20 times more deadly than the flu, with a fatality rate of about 2.3% (in the U.S., seasonal flu's fatality rate is about 0.1%), the Times reports.

—A 61-year-old man in Taiwan with history of diabetes and hepatitis B has died from the coronavirus. He had no history of travel to Wuhan and may have been a taxi driver, the Times reported.

—About 73,336 confirmed coronavirus cases (primarily in mainland China), according to the Johns Hopkins virus dashboard.  

—1,874 deaths linked to the virus. Deaths worldwide exceed those from SARS.

—15 confirmed U.S. cases. 13th confirmed U.S. case of the virus reported in person evacuated from Wuhan and accidentally released from a San Diego hospital. 

 —About 542 individuals on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship off Japan have tested positive for the coronavirus. There were 3,700 passengers and crew on the ship when it first docked off Japan.

—Hundreds of Americans onboard the Diamond Princess were evacuated back to the U.S. on Sunday, the Times reported. Australia, Canada and Hong Kong have said they'll evacuate their citizens as well.

—5 deaths have been linked to the virus outside of mainland China to date, including in Taiwan, the Philippines, Japan, Hong Kong and France.   

—With the approval of several international organizations, the WHO has now replaced the temporary name for the disease with an official name: Corona Virus Disease, abbreviated as COVID-19.   

—The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses has named the virus "severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, or SARS-CoV-2," due to its genetic similarity to the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

Data collected from Different news channels