Death toll in China's coronavirus nears 1,500 with 5,090 new cases

death toll in China's vel coronavirus outbreak has spiked to nearly 1,500 with 121 new fatalities reported mostly from worst-affected Hubei province while confirmed cases of infection jumped to nearly 65,000, health officials said on Friday.

hard-hit Hubei province, epicentre of outbreak, has reported 116 new fatalities and reported 4,823 new confirmed cases on Thursday, provincial health commission said on Friday.

National Health Commission said, with 5,090 new cases total number of confirmed coronavirus cases soared up to 64,894 as of Thursday. commission said it received reports of 121 deaths on Thursday with 5,090 new confirmed cases of vel coronavirus infection from 31 provincial-level regions.

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Among deaths, 116 were in Hubei Province, two in Heilongjiang, and one in Anhui, Henan and Chongqing respectively, commission said. number of new cases in Hubei Province included 3,095 clinically diagsed cases, which have been seen as confirmed cases. new deaths also include eight who were clinically diagsed.

latest report brought total confirmed cases in Hubei province to 51,986, state-run Xinhua news ncy reported. World Health Organisation on Thursday said a sharp rise of 254 cases of COVID-19 (official name for coronavirus) cases in China, due to a change in counting methods, did t represent a big shift in epidemic.

Of 254, Hubei and its provincial capital Wuhan reported 242 deaths, single highest in a day so far. "This does t represent a significant change in trajectory of outbreak," Michael Ryan, he of WHO's health emergencies programme, told a press conference in Geneva. "We're t dealing, from what we understand, with a spike in cases of 14,000 on one day," he said.

"This increase that you've all seen in last 24 hours is largely, in part, down to a change in how cases are being reported." Ryan also said he expected members of a WHO-led international mission to China to arrive over weekend. Alrey 15-member vance WHO team has arrived in China on Monday. 

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