China reports 118 more coronavirus deaths

BEIJING: The death toll in China from the coronavirus outbreak jumped to 2,236 on Friday after 118 more people died, most of them in Hubei province.

According to the National Health Commission in its daily update report that China had confirmed 889 new cases.

Health Commission report stated that more than 75,000 coronavirus infections cases have now been emerged in China, while coronavirus affected 100 more overseas in over 25 countries across the globe.

Health authorities said the enormous majority of the deaths and overall cases in China remain in Hubei province and mostly the provincial capital of Wuhan, where the virus first reported last year.

Health officials said on Thursday that it had once again modified the process of medication as confirms infections and would now include only those diagnosed by laboratory tests.

It was the second revision in just eight days, a progress that could merge efforts to track or stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Earlier, Chinese health authorities had last week stated that patients from Hubei province who had been diagnosed through clinical methods including lung imaging would be added to the count in addition to those confirmed by lab tests.

That led to a huge one-day boost in the number of confirmed cases 14,840 on 13 February. It further said this week that their severe containment efforts, including quarantining millions of people in Hubei province and restricting travels nationwide have initiated to pay off.