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The death toll from the novel coronavirus has reached 1,873, as almost half of China’s 1.3 billion-strong population remain subject to varying forms of travel restrictions and other quarantine measures. On Tuesday, Liu Zhiming, director of the Wuchang hospital in Wuhan, the city at the center of the outbreak,...

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The death toll from the coronavirus reached a new high on Wednesday even as Chinese officials said the infection rate showed signs of slowing. The World Health Organization on Tuesday proposed an official name for the illness caused by the new coronavirus: COVID-19. The acronym stands for coronavirus disease...

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The 34-year-old Li Wenliang, the first doctor to warn China government of the deadly coronavirus outbreak dies due to the same virus. He suspected Sars-like illness spreading in Wuhan, however, he was infected by the coronavirus and died on Thursday. Wenliang was an ophthalmologist at the Wuhan Central Hospital....

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