China to open new hospital as virus death toll passes 360 eNCA
About 1,400 military medics will treat patients at the hospital, dubbed"Fire God Mountain", according to state media.BEIJING - China's death toll from a new coronavirus jumped above 360 on Monday to surpass the number of fatalities of its SARS crisis two decades ago, with dozens of people dying in the epicentre's quarantined ground-zero.
The 57 confirmed new deaths was the single-biggest increase since the virus was detected late last year in the central city of Wuhan, where it is believed to have jumped from animals at a market into humans.
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