Deaths from China's coronavirus outbreak surpass deaths from SARS

China's Hubei province reports 81 new deaths from coronavirus on Feb.8

A passenger wearing a mask walks outside the Shanghai railway station in Shanghai, China, as the country is hit by an outbreak of the new coronavirus, February 8, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song

SHANGHAI/BEIJING - The number of deaths in China’s central Hubei province from a coronavirus outbreak had risen by 81 to 780 as of Saturday, the province’s health commission said on Sunday morning, taking the global count past that of the SARS epidemic in 2002/2003.A further 2,147 cases have been detected in Hubei, the epicenter of the outbreak, the provincial health commission said in a statement on its website, taking the total in the province to 27,100.

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