Chinese data suggests the new virus, while much more contagious than SARS, is significantly less lethal, but...
US health experts are due to arrive in China as part of a World Health Organization effort to help fight the fast-spreading coronavirus, as the number of cases and deaths continued to mount.
A 1,000-bed hospital built in eight days to treat people with the virus in Wuhan was due to receive its first patients on Monday, state media said. A second hospital with 1,600 beds is due to be operational later this week. Washington has “unceasingly manufactured and spread panic,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters, noting that the WHO had advised against trade and travel curbs.
“There is no reason for measures that unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade,” he told the WHO’s executive board in Geneva.
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