The death toll from China’s new coronavirus epidemic jumped past 1,500 on Saturday but new infections fell following a mid-week surge caused by a change in the way cases are counted. More than 66,000 people have now been infected in China from a virus that emerged in central Hubei province in December before spreading across the country a month later …
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February 15, 2020