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France Reports its First Death from the Covid-19 Coronavirus

Only three other deaths from the coronavirus have been reported outside of China. — In the Philippines, Hong Kong and Japan.

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French health authorities have reported the first death associated with the Covid-19 coronavirus.  An elderly Chinese tourist has died in France, marking the first death outside Asia from the coronavirus. The virus has killed more than 1,500 people in China.

There were 2,641 new confirmed infections in China, the National Health Commission said. Bringing the total to almost 66,500. In Wuhan, where the outbreak is centered, authorities have also further tightened the already strict quarantine.

Wuhan residents will now be allowed to leave residential compounds only for medical care.

Neighborhoods in Wuhan will be barricaded off to keep people from getting in or out. Also non-residents won’t be able to enter neighborhoods that aren’t theirs.

The virus is showing no signs of abating outside of China. Japan and Malaysia on Saturday confirmed new cases, as did Thailand. In Thailand the first local health worker to contract the disease was diagnosed. Bringing the total number of coronavirus cases to 34.

In Paris, French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said she had been told about the death of the 80-year-old patient. The man had been in hospital in Paris since late January. On Friday, his condition “had deteriorated rapidly” after several days in critical condition.

Furthermore six people with the coronavirus remain in hospital in France, she said, adding that none were seriously ill.

One of them was the dead Chinese tourist’s 50-year-old daughter. The remainder are British nationals who were infected by a compatriot at a French ski resort.

Coronavirus cases outside of China

The most concentrated number of cases outside China is on a cruise ship quarantined off the Japanese coast, which is holding at least 285 people with the virus among its 3,700 crew and passengers.

The US embassy in Tokyo has said it would fly roughly 400 Americans on board the ship back to their home country

Only three other deaths from the coronavirus have been reported outside of China. — In the Philippines, Hong Kong and Japan.  Furthermore health authorities have recorded 600 coronavirus cases outside mainland China.  Above all 35 of the cases have been reported in the European Union.

Meanwhile, New Zealand has imposed an extension on restrictions on travel from China for a further eight days. Calling it “a precautionary approach” and a matter of public health.

The country is preventing foreign nationals traveling from, or transiting through, mainland China from entering, and the position will be reviewed every 48 hours.

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