Nearly 37,000 individuals have now been infected by the new coronavirus in China, thought to have actually emerged last year in a market that offered wild animals in Hubei’s capital Wuhan before spreading throughout China.
China’s foreign ministry said in a statement to AFP that the victim was a U.S. citizen of Chinese origin.
A Japanese man in his 60 s with a presumed coronavirus infection also passed away in health center in Wuhan, the Japanese foreign ministry stated, adding that