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Originally Posted by Mick

BREAKING: Coronavirus Total Deaths surpasses 1,000 & UK Prison inmate currently being tested for Coronavirus, recently transferred from Thailand.

• On Tuesday, 109 people died in mainland China in one day, topping 100 for the first time and bringing the total to 1,016
• There were 2,478 new confirmed cases on the mainland, taking the total to 42,638
• Around the world 462 cases are confirmed in 27 countries, with a death in Hong Kong and one in the Philippines
• As of 2pm on Tuesday, the UK had tested 1,358 people - 244 more than Monday - with eight positive
• The Westerdam cruise ship, where no coronavirus cases have been confirmed, was turned away from Thailand on Tuesday after the Philippines and Japan refused to let it dock
• Bank of England governor Mark Carney said that the virus was "from an economic perspective, already bigger than SARS"
• Postal operators in the US, China and elsewhere have said the suspension of flights is having a major impact on global flows of letters and parcels
  
  https://news.sky.com/story/two-uk-pr...virus-11931564

Perhaps this will add a bit of perspective.

So far, 10,000 people have died and 180,000 people have been hospitalized during the 2019-2020 flu season, according to preliminary estimates from the CDC.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/1300-p...ry?id=67754182