Hong Kong records its first death from the newly identified coronavirus, the second fatality outside mainland China from an outbreak that has killed over 420 people by farahmaster wooryan
In Hong Kong, hospital staff said the 39-year-old male victim had a pre-existing chronic illness and had visited Wuhan in January before falling ill.
Hong Kong was badly hit by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome , another coronavirus that emerged from China in 2002 and killed almost 800 people around the world. According to WHO figures, SARS killed 299 people in Hong Kong during that outbreak. The United States said on Friday it would block nearly all foreign visitors who have been to China within the past 14 days, joining Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, Vietnam and others who have imposed similar entry restrictions.
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