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Taiwan on Sunday reported the nation’s first death from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), a 61-year-old male living in central Taiwan, according to the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC). The patient, who had Hepatitis B and diabetes, had not traveled overseas…

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Another British national who stayed at a chalet in the Les Contamines-Montjoie resort has been diagnosed with coronavirus. Last week five UK citizens, including a nine-year-old child, were diagnosed with the airborne disease, having stayed at the same lodge in…

Egypt has confirmed its first case of a deadly coronavirus that emerged in central China at the end of last year and has since spread to more than two dozen countries around the world. Health Ministry spokesman Khaled Mugahed said…

An elderly Chinese man has died from coronavirus, the first fatality from the infection in Europe. The 80-year-old tourist died from a lung infection at Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital in northern Paris. French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn confirmed the death –…