Doctor at Wuhan Hospital Dies as Coronavirus Outbreak Spreads

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A doctor who worked at a hospital in Wuhan, where coronavirus patients are being treated, died Saturday morning. The pneumonia-causing virus has so far claimed the lives of more than 40 people while infecting more than 1,200 others

BEIJING--A doctor who worked at a hospital in Wuhan, China, where coronavirus patients are being treated, died Saturday morning, while a two-year-old Chinese girl became the youngest patient to date in a rapidly spreading outbreak that authorities are struggling to contain.

The newly identified coronavirus, which causes pneumonia, has so far claimed the lives of more than 40 people while infecting more than 1,200 others, officials said. Most of the cases are in and around Wuhan, in central China, but others have been found...

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