Coronavirus Outbreak: All The Latest Updates

A woman arrived from the Iranian holy city of Qom where several infections and deaths were reported this week.

Mainland China has reported 118 new deaths from the coronavirus outbreak, pushing the number of deaths nationwide to at least 2,236.

Beijing also reported 1,109 new confirmed cases of the disease during the same period, sharply up from 349 cases the previous day, reversing three days of decline.

At least 631 of the new cases were from the epicentre of the epidemic in Hubei, including 220 cases from the province’s prison system. Most of the latest deaths were also from the province.

The latest number of infections nationwide has now reached 75,685.

Here are the latest updates:

Friday, February 21

Zelensky criticises people that attacked Ukrainians evacuated from Wuhan

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had harsh words for an angry mob who smashed windows on buses carrying dozens of Ukrainians evacuated from China over the novel coronavirus outbreak.

“We keep saying that Ukraine is Europe. But yesterday it seemed like we were Europe in the Middle Ages,” Zelensky said in Kiev.

Fearing the passengers would bring the first deadly case of the novel coronavirus to Ukraine, hundreds of people – some armed with metal  rods and rocks – turned out to protest their return on Thursday.