China confirms 2,700 cases of virus, 40 counted elsewhere

Security personnel wearing protective clothing to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in Wuhan, talking with a subway staff wearing a mask at a subway station entrance in Beijing on Monday (Jan 27). China on Monday extended its biggest national holiday to buy time in the fight against a viral epidemic. - AFP

BEIJING: China has confirmed more than 2,700 cases of a new virus, with 80 deaths. Most have been in the central city of Wuhan where the illness first surfaced last month. More than 40 cases have been confirmed in other places with virtually all of them involving Chinese tourists or people who visited Wuhan recently.

As of MOnday (Jan 27) evening, In China there were 2,750 cases with 769 of those newly confirmed in the 24 hours through midnight Sunday.