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Philippines coronavirus

Last updated: February 3, 2020 3:41 am
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it was the first death out of more than 130 cases reported in around two dozen countries and regions outside of mainland china.

The Philippines on Sunday reported the growing epidemic of a coronavirus has claimed its first fatality outside of China, where new confirmed infections jumped by a daily record to top 14,000 cases.

The Philippines department of health said a 44-year-old man from Wuhan city in central Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak, died in a manila hospital after developing severe pneumonia.

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The man who died was a companion of a 38-year-old chinese woman, also from wuhan, who was the first and only other person to test positive for the virus in the philippines. Both patients arrived in the philippines via hong kong on jan. 21.

China’s death toll from the outbreak reached 304 as of the end of saturday, state broadcaster CCTV said on sunday, citing the country’s national health commission.

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