Death toll in China's coronavirus epidemic has gone up to 1,483 with Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak, reporting 116 new fatalities, the country's health officials said on Friday.
The hard-hit province reported 4,823 new confirmed cases on Thursday, the provincial health commission said.
The new cases included 3,095 clinically diagnosed ones which have been considered as confirmed, state run Xinhua news agency reported.
The latest report brought the total confirmed cases in the province to 51,986, the report said. The new cases have pushed the number of infections in the country to 64,627 in total.
The National Health Commission has not yet announced the nationwide figures.
