Another 81 people died of corona virus, up 11.1% compared to yesterday, bringing the total death to 805, the number of cases was 37,045.

Hubei Provincial Health Commission this morning confirmed 81 more local deaths, bringing the number of deaths from pneumonia due to new strain of corona virus (nCoV) in the province to 780.

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Health workers send patients infected with corona virus to a field hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, February 4. Photo: Reuters.

The number of deaths worldwide increased to 805, including two recorded outside of mainland China: a Wuhan man in the Philippines and a 39-year-old man in Hong Kong. This is close to the number of deaths from the SARS pandemic in 2002-2003 of 813, according to World Health Organization (WHO) data.

Hubei also discovered an additional 2,147 new infections, bringing the total number of people infected in this locality to 27,100. The number of new confirmed cases in the province is 694 fewer cases than the previous day.

The outbreak of acute pneumonia caused by nCoV in Wuhan City, the capital of Hubei, from December 2019, spread to 31 Chinese provinces and 26 countries and territories. The WHO said on Monday that the number of reported daily reported deaths and nCoV infections in China was "stable", but it is still too early to confirm whether the spread of the virus has peaked. .