Coronavirus: 5,000 new cases reported

Some 55,748 people are currently undergoing treatment, while 1,380 people have died of the flu-like virus.

China’s health authorities reported more than 5,000 new cases. 

Meanwhile passengers on a cruise ship blocked from five countries due to virus fears finally disembarked in Cambodia.

In its latest update, China’s National Health Commission said it had recorded 121 new deaths and 5,090 new coronavirus cases on the mainland on Feb. 13, taking the accumulated total infected to 63,851 people.

Some 55,748 people are currently undergoing treatment, while 1,380 people have died of the flu-like virus that emerged in Hubei province’s capital, Wuhan, in December. The latest toll takes account of some deaths that had been double counted in Hubei, the health commission said.