Tibet, the last region in mainland China with no confirmed cases of the Wuhan coronavirus, announced the indefinite closure of all tourist attractions effective from Monday, a state-run newspaper reported, citing the regional Communist Party committee
From CNN's James Griffiths and Helen Regan
By the end of day Monday, the number of confirmed cases of people infected with the Wuhan coronavirus in mainland China was 4,515, according to China’s National Health Commission. During the 2002 and 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome , there were 8,098 confirmed cases worldwide from November 2002 to July 2003, with 774 deaths.
As of mid-March 2003, roughly a month after the World Health Organization was first alerted to SARS by Chinese authorities, and three months after the first cases were detected in China,On Monday, the mayor of Wuhan admitted that people were"not satisfied" with the rate that his government released information on the coronavirus, adding that it was"not disclosed in a timely fashion.
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