Chinese Health Officials have just confirmed early 5000 new coronavirus cases and who pay province that is the at the center of the virus they announced 116 more deaths in the region on thursday the surge in numbers comes as doctors and who bay have been started a new approach to detect the virus adrian brown reports from hong kong. When who based party chief spoke to the media 2 weeks ago he must have known his days when number. Is the highest ranking political casualty so far. His dismissal is in response to mounting public anger over the chinese governments handling of the coronavirus outbreak and follows the sacking of 2 senior Health Officials on monday and while the purge looks set to continue analysts say it wont bring down those at the top of the party in the way the companys policy works is sacrifice a few small fry to keep the big fish swimming in the pond and this is worked i mean this is what happened in the last great time of the sars epidemic 17 years ago the dramatic jum
Recorded a day or like summer. Chinese Health Authorities have confirmed almost 5000 new coronavirus cases and hoop a province that is the epicenter of the outbreak also announced 116 more deaths in the region on thursday there are now nearly 52000 people and the province with the virus new cases surged by almost 15000 on wednesday after doctors and who they changed the method of testing for the illness joins us live from beijing with the latest so theres been this huge number increases in the in the number of cases training but the government is trying to form some sort of new treatment tell us about that. Thats right so the government with this new these new increases we had another 4000 cases announced in the last 24 for hours and then theyre trying to tell the public look this is all because of the change in diagnosis it wasnt the fact that there was a jump in these figures this is the people who are suspected cases those suspected cases and now being move over to these confirmed c
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Of failing in the search for their relative. To the Chinese Government has confirmed that 6 Health Care Workers have died from corona virus more than 1700 others have been infected most of them in a province thats the center of the outbreak the announcement raises concerns over the shortage of medical supplies and protective gear for doctors and nurses who are treating patients it adds as well to the growing public anger a good seal surratt is following the death of the doctor the doctor who was reprimanded for raising the alarm about the virus back in december lets go live to hong kong our correspondent there james brown its amazing isnt it those expected to take care of the sick are themselves falling ill and even dying. And the same thing happened during the sars epidemic 17 years ago so questions are being asked about why lessons have not been learned but as you pointed out in your introduction yes there has been concern over the fact that many medical workers like adequate protect
Simple and digging for the truth families of mexicos drug war victims accuse the government of failing them in the say for their relatives. Coming up in sports 2 giants of african football play form of the continents major titles away from home soil as the super cup kicks off in qatar. Thank you very much for joining us the Chinese Government has confirmed that 6 healthcare workers have died from corona virus more than 1700 others have been infected most of them in a province c. F. The center of the outbreak this raises concerns about the shortage of medical resources. The National Health commission is very concerned about this with issue technical guidelines for the prevention and control. Corona virus infections within medical institutions and weve given a special notice of virus controls to key areas and the fever departments of key hospitals through these documents we have opposed to special requirements on hudson the personal protection of medical workers now there are nearly 6500