Confirmed deaths have now passed thd 1,500 mark (1,526, 95% of them in Hubei province).
Confirmed cases 67,090
Recovered cases 8,399
A study of the first 8,000 or so cases suggests that male patients have a significantly higher case fatality rate than female, incidentally (4.45% vs 1.25%); no real data yet on how much this is due to different smoking rates (50% in men in china vs 2% in women) vs other health behaviour differences vs biological differences https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.10.20021675v1