{"id":101860,"date":"2020-02-04T05:42:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T13:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/80-of-coronavirus-victims-are-over-60-chinese-health-official-says"},"modified":"2020-02-04T05:42:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T13:42:47","slug":"80-of-coronavirus-victims-are-over-60-chinese-health-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/80-of-coronavirus-victims-are-over-60-chinese-health-official-says","title":{"rendered":"80% of coronavirus victims are over 60, Chinese health official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/80-of-coronavirus-victims-are-over-60-chinese-health-official-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>80% of victims were over the age of 60 and 75% had some form of underlying condition, according to China\u2019s National Health Commission.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The death rate from the Wuhan <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2020\/02\/04\/asia\/wuhan-coronavirus-update-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">coronavirus<\/a> across mainland China stands at 2.1%, China\u2019s National Health Commission said in a press update on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In Hubei province, the epicenter of the outbreak, the rate is 3.1%, said Jiao Yahui, deputy director of the National Health Commissions State Health Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Hubei province accounts for 97% of all deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>80% of victims were over the age of 60 and 75% had some form of underlying condition, according to China\u2019s National Health Commission. The death rate from the Wuhan coronavirus across mainland China stands at 2.1%, China\u2019s National Health Commission said in a press update on Tuesday. In Hubei province, the epicenter of the outbreak, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}