China virus evacuations begin as death toll rises

Foreign governments begin flying their citizens out of China's Hubei province as death toll there tops 160

A woman wears a face masks as she travels on a high-speed train near Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, China, as the country is hit by an outbreak of a new coronavirus, on January 29, 2020.

Earlier, the health commission for Hubei said on Thursday that deaths in the province from the new coronavirus had risen by 37 to 162, while a further 1,032 cases had been detected. "In the last few days the progress of the virus, especially in some countries, especially human-to-human transmission, worries us," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference on Wednesday, naming Germany, Vietnam and Japan.

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