Iran Press/Asia: The death toll in China from the coronavirus epidemic rose to 2,233 on Friday 21 February after 115 more people died in Hubei province, the hard-hit epicenter of the outbreak.
The vast majority of the deaths were in the provincial capital of Wuhan, where the virus first emerged in December, according to a daily update from the Hubei health commission.
Around 75,000 people have been infected by the new coronavirus in China, and hundreds more in over 25 countries.
The Hubei health commission said there were 411 new cases of the virus in the province, with 319 in Wuhan and the rest spread out across several other cities.
China said on Thursday that it had once again changed the method of counting patients with the novel coronavirus and will now include only those diagnosed by laboratory tests.
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