New cases of infection in the country amount to 1,749, totaling 74,185, according to the most recent balance sheet by the National Health Commission of China.
By midnight local (16:00 on Tuesday in Lisbon) 11,977 cases of serious infection had been registered, with 14,376 people recovering.
Covid-19, a virus that causes respiratory infections like pneumonia, was detected in December in Wuhan, in the province of Hubei, where several cities have been quarantined, a measure that covers about 60 million inhabitants.
Outside China, there is one dead in the Philippines, one in Japan, one in France and one in Taiwan.
According to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, there are 45 confirmed cases in the European Union and the United Kingdom.
The World Health Organization has declared the Covid-19 outbreak as an international public health emergency in view of the high risk of spreading the new coronavirus on a global scale.
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