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
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
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The u. S. Senate passes a new law curbing the president s power to attack iran. For the 2nd day in a row the number of coronavirus cases has surged in the chinese province at the hospital officials in her base say nearly 5000 new people were confirmed to have the virus on thursday and the total number of people infected across the country has now risen 264000 while theres still not a kill one hospital is saying that there are signs blood transfusions from people whove recovered from the virus could be an effective treatment the World Health Organization is saying the mortality rate of the virus is still at about 2 percent and that is less fatal than the sars epidemic of 17 years ago. We can go live that adrian brown our correspondent in hong kong so a raft of new figures coming out on the daily basis adrian how much confidence in the people of china have as to the transparency in the validity of these numbers coming from their government. Well i think certainly while the aljazeera team
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