Coronavirus deaths exceed Sars fatalities in 2003

Coronavirus deaths exceed Sars fatalities in 2003
# 09 February 2020 08:51 (UTC +04:00)

The number of coronavirus deaths has overtaken that of the Sars epidemic in 2003, APA rpeorts quoting BBC.

In China's Hubei province alone, the epicentre of the latest outbreak, the death toll now is put at 780 by regional health officials.

All but two of the overall total of 803 deaths have so far been in mainland China.

In 2003, 774 people were killed by Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome) in more than two dozen countries.

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