Number of infected cases of coronavirus in China exceeds 79,000

SANAA, Feb. 29 (YPA) – Chinese authorities on Saturday reported 47 death cases and 427 infected of coronavirus in the past 24 hours.

“Forty-seven people have died of the coronavirus virus, bringing the total number of death cases to 2,835, and 427 new infected cases have been reported, bringing the number of infections to 79,251,” the Ministry of Health said in a statement.

The statement noted that the number of cases recovered from the virus had reached 39,002.

In recent days, Chinese specialists have performed an autopsy on a patient who died of the virus

The results of the autopsy showed that the infection mainly affects the lungs and that there are no clear signs of damage to the tissues and other organs in the body of the deceased, and that the virus causes infections in the bronchi and pulmonary vesicles, during which lung tissue is also damaged and shows forms of the fibrosis.

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