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Hong Kong records first coronavirus death as fatalities in mainland China hit 425 | South China Morning Post

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Hong Kong confirmed its first death from the novel coronavirus on February 4, 2020, after a 39-year-old man died after travelling to Wuhan, the capital of the central Chinese province of Hubei. Health officials say the victim developed a fever after returning to Hong Kong, and was the city’s 13th confirmed case of t…

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