Hong Kong lays its biggest rise in cases of Corona as the new wave of arrests infections in Asia

Hong Kong added that by far the biggest leap day in the crown case to Friday is the latest in a new phase of infected travelers, many of whom return to the city from Europe, the US and Southeast Asia. The city is not only against the growing threat of imported cases. Saw Taiwan, which is also a daily record increase in the number of new cases, reported 27 more infections on Friday, most of which related to travel. In Singapore, 24 of the 32 infected patients had a history of travel to Southeast Asia, Europe and North America. All three places for the first wave of the outbreak defend crown created when it has spread beyond the mainland, despite the closer economic ties and a large number of travelers from the mainland. The new wave crashed across the region falling as the number of new cases officially reported to the mainland only a handful. Thursday ‘, Chinese officials have reported zero new infections national crown. Read more: What can we learn from Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong over handling Crown In Hong Kong, 36 of the 48-COVID 19 cases reported on Friday, had foreign travel records, Dr. Chuang Shuk-kwan, head of communicable disease branch of Hong Kong Center for health protection, said during a press conference in the afternoon. The cases involve trips to more than a dozen countries, including Singapore, the Philippines, Austria, Portugal, United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. The new confirmed cases bring the total in Hong Kong to 256. Among the infected has a four year old girl, whose father is believed that the virus during a trip to London under contract have. A taxi driver who does not recently added trip abroad, but takes one or two trips daily to and from the airport, also diagnosed with a coronavirus. Experts fear that the wave of sick travelers to Asia returned an increase in local infection and the risk could mean an epidemic in the community. Read more: A Silent Epidemic? Experts “We are entering a new phase in motion,” the Crown widespread fear in Southeast Asia undetected Ben Hood, professor of epidemiology of infectious diseases at the University of Hong Kong, told TIME. “In one or two weeks, we could see outbreaks where we do not really know where people [the virus]. Perhaps someone who came with the infection has not been identified, it spreads to a family member, their spread in the Community. What will happen in Hong Kong, and other parts of Asia added, “fairing. In Hong Kong, more than 90% of new cases in the last two weeks he had links to travel abroad, according to the South China Morning Post. Worldwide, almost 245,000 new cases of coronavirus virus confirmed pursuers John Hopkins University. Previously, the total number of infections passed outside the People’s Republic of China this week, the number in the country. Thursday ‘, the number of deaths in Italy, more than 41,000 cases, the death toll has surpassed in China. Worldwide, the virus has killed more than 10,000 people.
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