Coronavirus updates: Some test kits sent to states were flawed, CDC says
Forty-four more people have been confirmed to have novel coronavirus from a quarantined cruise ship in Japan, bringing the total number to 218, Japan’s Health Ministry said Thursday local time.
The nationalities of the 44 newly diagnosed people were not immediately identified, but the overall cases from the cruise ship include at least 32 Americans. The novel coronavirus had killed more than 1,300 people in mainland China as of Thursday morning local time, according to Chinese authorities. “The stabilization in cases in the last number of days is very reassuring,” Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization’s health emergencies program, said during a news conference Wednesday.
Wednesday afternoon, the WHO reported that more than 45,000 cases had been diagnosed, nearly all in China. Just 441 cases of COVID-19 had been diagnosed in other countries, including 13 in the U.S.continues to rise. Ryan said many of the latest deaths reflect patients became ill several weeks ago, and developed severe complications.
The problem was found during initial routine run-throughs with the test to make sure it was working correctly before using it to diagnose COVID-19, as the illness is now called, in actual patients.
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