China virus death toll rises to 41, more than 1,300 infected worldwide

The official death toll from the coronavirus in China jumped on Saturday to 41 from 26 a day earlier, as local media reported a doctor on the frontline of the battle to contain the virus in Wuhan city had died. More than 1,300 people have been infected globally, as health authorities around the world scramble to prevent a global pandemic. Doctor Liang Wudong, 62, at Hubei Xinhua Hospital in Wuhan, the city where the virus first appeared and which is in virtual quarantine, died from the virus, China Global Television Network reported in a tweet.
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