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China Announces 2nd Death From New Coronavirus
Medical workers await disinfection during an anti-MERS drill in Qingdao, China in 2015. / VCG / Getty / Kyodo
By Kyodo News 17 January 2020
BEIJING—Local authorities in Wuhan, central China said on Thursday that a 69-year-old man died the previous day of pneumonia caused by a new coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths linked to the virus to two.
The man had been hospitalized in the city since he developed symptoms of pneumonia on Dec. 31. He died early on Wednesday, the authorities said.
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