Death toll from new virus reaches 11: U.N. health body

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Death toll from new virus reaches 11: U.N. health body

GENEVA (Reuters) - A 73-year-old man from the United Arab Emirates has become the eleventh person to die from a virus that attacks the respiratory system and was only identified six months ago, the World Health Organization said. The latest casualty of the so-called "novel Coronavirus" (nCoV) was flown to hospital in Munich last week and died on Tuesday, the United Nations' agency said. Seventeen cases have been announced since the WHO issued an alert in September last year, most of them with links to the Middle East. ...

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