Death toll from new coronavirus set to surpass SARS, as China's fatalities above 700

The death toll in mainland China jumped by 86 to 722, and is poised to pass the 774 deaths recorded globally during the 2002-2003 pandemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), another coronavirus that jumped from animals to humans in China.

from News-Economic Times https://ift.tt/2Snyrlu