Dr. Kong Yuefeng, a recovered COVID-19 patient who has passed his 14-day quarantine, donates plasma in the city’s blood center in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020. Plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients contains antibodies that can help reduce the virus load in critically ill patients, according to China’s National Health Commission. (Chinatopix via AP)
A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 75,000 people globally.
The World Health Organization has named the illness COVID-19, referring to its origin late last year and the coronavirus that causes it.
The latest figures reported by each government’s health authority as ofWednesday in Beijing:
— Mainland China:2,004 deaths among 74,185 cases, mostly in the central province of Hubei
— Hong Kong: 62 cases, 2 deaths
— Macao: 10
— Japan: 614 cases, including 542 from a cruise ship docked in Yokohama, 1 death
— Singapore: 81
— South Korea: 51
— Thailand: 35
— Malaysia: 22
— Taiwan: 22 cases, 1 death
— Vietnam: 16
— Germany: 16
— United States: 15 cases; separately, 1 U.S. citizen died in China
— Australia: 14
— France: 12 cases, 1 death
— United Kingdom: 9
— United Arab Emirates: 9
— Canada: 8
— Philippines: 3 cases, 1 death
— India: 3
— Italy: 3
— Russia: 2
— Spain: 2
— Belgium: 1
— Nepal: 1
— Sri Lanka: 1
— Sweden: 1
— Cambodia: 1
— Finland: 1
— Egypt: 1