China reported some grim milestones Tuesday as President Xi Jinping appeared on TV touring a hospital in Beijing and declaring that "we will most definitely win this people's war" against the coronavirus that has spread around the world from Wuhan, a city of 11 million in China's Hubei province. The death toll from the virus has risen above 1,000, to 1,016 in mainland China, the National Health Commission said Tuesday, and for the first time, the daily number of reported coronavirus deaths topped 100, with 108 people succumbing in the previous 24 hours.
On the brighter side, China reported fewer new cases of the Wuhan coronavirus: 2,478 cases reported Monday, from 3.062 on Sunday. That brings the total number of cases in mainland China to 42,638, including patients who recovered and were released. Outside mainland China, authorities have confirmed 440 cases, including 135 of the 3,711 passengers stuck on a cruse ship quarantined in Yokohama, Japan.
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