Tag Archives: Coronavirus epidemic death toll in China surges past 1

BEIJING: The death toll from China´s new coronavirus epidemic surged past 1,500 on Saturday after 139 more people died in Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak. The province´s health commission also reported 2,420 new cases of the COVID-19 strain, about half the number from the previous day. At least 1,519 people have now died from the outbreak that first …

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