China records highest daily death amid coronavirus outbreak, new cases on decline

death toll for coronavirus outbreak in China has reportedly soared past 1,000. However, number of new confirmed cases has dropped. According to international media reports, re were 2,478 new confirmed cases in  mainland on February 10, down from 3,062 on previous day, bringing total to about 42,638. It was also second time in past two weeks that authorities recorded a daily drop in new cases. 

World Health Organisation (WHO) has, however, cautioned about spre of cases outside of China as it could be ' spark that becomes a bigger fire'. According to reports, ar 108 new coronavirus deaths were reported, bringing total number of people killed in country to 1,016. re are also nearly 319 cases in 24 or countries and territories, however, only two deaths have been reported outside China so far. 

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Amid coronavirus outbreak, an vance team of WHO experts have arrived in China on Tuesday. WHO chief Tedros ham Ghebreyesus informed that team is heed by Dr. Bruce Aylward and aims to lay base work for a bigger international team. experts will also be working with Chinese doctors in mainland.

WHO is also convening a global research and invation forum to mobilise international action in response to vel coronavirus. forum will be held on February 11-12 in Geneva which is being organised in collaboration with Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness. forum will bring toger key players including leing scientists as well as public health ncies, ministries of health and research funders pursuing 2019-nCoV critical animal health and public health research, development of vaccines, rapeutics and diagstics, among or invations.

“WHO is playing an important coordinating role by bringing scientific community toger to identify research priorities and accelerate progress,” said Ghebreyesus in a statement.

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$675 million for response plan

In order to tackle spreing virus, WHO stated that international community has furr launched a $675 million preparedness and response plan covering February to April 2020. Earlier, WHO h also warned international public health authorities that virus was of a significant threat to nations outside mainland China and disease's pandemic nature enforced a global response to outbreak.

outbreak started in Wuhan earlier this year and multiple countries have started evacuating ir citizens from country while deciding to restrict entry of foreigners returning from China. WHO has declared Coronavirus as a 'global public health emergency'.

(With ncy inputs)

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