
First coronavirus death outside China reported as infections top 14,000
Sunday, February 2, 2020, 9:42 PM
China ramped-up measures to contain the coronavirus-epidemic and shore-up an economy hit by travel curbs and business shut-downs on Sunday as the first death from the illness was reported outside the country. A 44-year-old Chinese man from the central city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the epidemic, travelled to the Philippines and died on Saturday in a hospital in Manila, the Philippines Department-of-Health said.
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