A staff member takes body temperature of a girl at Singapore Changi Airport in Singapore, Feb. 5, 2020.
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The global death toll from the new coronavirus is now at 813, higher than that of SARS.
China reported an additional 89 deaths on Sunday, bringing the total number of deaths in the mainland to 811. Hubei, the Chinese province at the heart of the global outbreak, accounted to 81 of those additional deaths.
The global death toll for the new coronavirus currently stands at 813, including one death in the Philippines and another in Hong Kong.
That number exceeds the global death toll from SARS, which killed at least 774 people and infected 8,096 people worldwide in 2002 and 2003, according to data from the World Health Organization.
The new virus — first reported to the World Health Organization in late December — is believed to have originated from a seafood market in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei.
It has since infected more than 35,000 people worldwide, majority of them in mainland China. According to WHO’s latest situation report, nearly 300 cases have been reported in 24 countries, mostly in Asia.
Hubei accounts for most of the deaths and cases around the world. The Hubei Provincial Health Committee said on Sunday that there was an additional 2,147 new cases, bringing the total of confirmed cases to 27,100.
