well the statistics around the

coronavirus have been revised upwards

250 more deaths have been recorded

almost all of them are in Hubei Province

where this outbreak began and as you can

see from this graphic there's been a

huge spike in the number of cases -

there are now more than 48,000 in Hubei

that's up 15,000 and the upward shift is

in part because of a broader definition

of the virus and how it's being

diagnosed here's the World Health

Organization on that crucially we

understand that most of these cases

relate to a period going back over days

and weeks and our retrospectively

reported as cases since sometimes back

to the beginning of the outbreak itself

well here are the number of cases in

China going up and up we're now close to

60,000 the death toll in China is over

thirteen hundred and fifty but in

reality that figure is higher those who

die at home are not being counted in

official figures and the BBC knows from

having spoken to people in Wuhan that's

what people are choosing to do here's a

quote from an article on the BBC News

website we'd rather die at home than go

to quarantine and while this crisis is

escalating there's increasing pressure

on the authorities to senior officials

in Hubei have now been sacked let's get

more on this from Steven MacDonald in

Beijing now as to whether or not the

dismissal of those two senior Communist

Party officials on this very day is a

coincidence not I'm not sure but it

doesn't look good for them I mean the

who Bay Party secretary and the party

secretary as well for Wuhan City have

both been removed but somebody had to

take a fall for this I mean there's a

lot of public anger lot could have been

done to bring this under control before

millions of people left Wuhan and in

fact there's a lot of evidence showing

that in those early days they tried to

stop information getting out

and here's Celia Hatton on who could

replace those officials there's two new

men in place and in Hebei and in Wuhan

are both loyalists to see Jinping

especially the man in charge of the

province genome he comes from Shanghai

now he's a man known for tough security

measures but also last year he

implemented a citywide recycling program

in Shanghai now I know

probably doesn't sound that impressive

but in a city of 23 million almost

overnight to get all of those people to

suddenly follow new rules he managed to

pull it off that program is still in

place and it's being carried out across

China so here's a man who's known for

security and implementing really big

projects overnight while all those

skills are going to be needed because

scientists and officials are trying to

work together to factor a fashion and

effective response for more on that this

is David Heyman who directed the wh O's

response to the SARS virus in 2003 we're

all concerned about what we don't know

we know so far what's happening and what

we can see but what we don't know is the

real potential of this virus whether or

not this eventually could become a

disease endemic in humans like TB

influenza or others because influenza

also comes from animals into humans and

it sometimes becomes a permanent

resident another important detail is

that we know that this virus is not

spreading particularly quickly outside

of China here's David Heyman again well

certainly it spread throughout China and

China's making every effort they can in

the way that they do best to stop the

disease what's important though is those

24 sites outside of China and also the

cruise ships that's where the

information about how severe the disease

is we really come from because the

patients here are being monitored very

closely as are their contacts and we're

learning a lot as we see what happens in

these situations which hopefully will

lock down the disease in these countries

and not permit it to spread further well

let's shift our focus from China

further south to Vietnam because a town

in the far north of Vietnam of about

10,000 people is now under quarantine

following five cases of the virus this

is one image we have of the checkpoints

that have been set up on the outskirts

of the town from Vietnam we then shift

to Cambodia because that u.s. cruise

ship which had been turned away by five

countries has finally been allowed to

dock here it is he'd spent two weeks at

sea searching for somewhere to stop

despite the fact there are no confirmed

cases on board and is an image that we

saw online of passengers cheering and

clinking glasses as they finally arrived

in port and while they might celebrate

but for the motor

they're still going to have to remain on

board as a precautionary measure next we

have to talk about perhaps the cruise

ship that's been getting the most

attention the diamond princess currently

stuck in Yokohama in Japan it has over

three and a half thousand people on

board and no one's getting off that's

because of all those people at least 200

passengers and crew are infected rip't

Wingfield Hays is just beside in so the

number of infections on board the

Diamond Princess behind me here in

Yokohama has again jumped today 44 new

cases confirmed today that followed 39

cases yesterday and that brings the

total number of infections from the ship

to 218 and that means as we know now

that this is now the single biggest

outbreak of the Cova 19 virus anywhere

outside mainland China the Japanese

government has made a small concession

to the criticism that has been building

of its the way that its handling this

outbreak they've said that very elderly

people over the age of 80 will be

allowed to disembark if they have

underlying health conditions or if they

are in one of those inside cabins that

don't have any outside windows or

balconies so expect to see that start

happening maybe tonight or on Friday but

there are many questions that remain

first of all obviously is our infection

still taking place is the virus still

circulating around the ship no one

really knows and the other big question

is why still has the Japanese government

not managed to test all of the

passengers and crew on board now two

weeks ago a group of British nationals

were evacuated from Wuhan and China and

they've spent two weeks at a hospital in

northwest England well now all 83 of

them have been released you can see one

of them celebrating there they've all

been given the all-clear

Fiona trot was there as they left sort

of strange to eat is being for them

evacuated from China coming here to the

we're all signing a form agreeing to be

quarantined wondering do I have the

virus and then getting used to the

confinement itself one man

here Leah shouting I'm free so there's

relief here this afternoon but also

what's very very clear is that all of

the 83 people here are very very

grateful to the NHS staff for the care

they have received well the man

celebrating his release here is Matt raw

and he's been giving his reaction to the

BBC it is lovely absolutely lovely to be

out and I'll no doubt be going out for a

pint late a little bit later and well

who would blame him not that matt is

complaining about his ordeal I should

say I would say that 99.9% of us if not

100% of us are really happy to have been

here we're very grateful to have been

here you know the last thing that any

one of us would have wanted is to have

passed that virus on if we were infected

to pass it on to somebody else you know

you have to live with that you know if

somebody does get sick from it and and

and and and dies we'd have to live with

that for knowledge for the rest of our

lives and of course you know that's not

who we are we we most of us we travel a

lot we travel extensively and you know

there are risks associated with that so

we do take ourselves seriously as expats

and and of course we want to be as

responsible as possible and if that

means staying in quarantine for a couple

of weeks so be it