Coronavirus fatality rate is 2.1% in China, says NHC

According to China’s National Health Commission, the case fatality rate of the novel coronavirus is 2.1 percent in the country as of Monday. The mortality rate in central China’s Hubei Province is 3.1 percent, while the figure stands at 4.9 percent in Wuhan City, the epicenter of the disease’s outbreak. 

Hubei Province accounts for 97 percent of all fatalities, which means the number excluding Hubei Province is 0.16 percent, said the commission.

Around 80 percent of the deaths are over the age of 60, while 75 percent of them had underlying conditions like cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and diabetes, the national health body said.