South Korean outbreak deepens fears of global coronavirus spread
A sharp drop in new China cases, partly due to a change in data methodology, fails to quell alarm
20 February 2020 - 10:48
Seoul/Beijing — A coronavirus outbreak in South Korea fanned the fear on Thursday of the global spread of the pathogen as research suggested it was more contagious than thought and two elderly passengers from a cruise ship quarantined in Japan died.
China reported a sharp drop in new cases, but the data was partly attributable to a change in how it diagnoses the virus, and the figures could not quell growing alarm about its spread...
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