BEIJING
The death toll from the novel coronavirus outbreak in China has risen to 2,837 Saturday, according to the country’s National Health Commission.
The commission said 47 more people died in the past 24 hours while 427 new cases were detected by health authorities, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to more than 79,250.
Forty-five of the deaths occurred in the epicenter of the outbreak, Hubei province, while two of them were in the capital Beijing and one in Hunan province.
Around 58,200 people are currently under medical care, while the number of discharged patients has totaled some 39,000.
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