New virus cases in UK are closely linked, official says – as it happened
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Death toll inside China's Hubei province jumps to 974, after UK government declared virus an 'imminent threat to public health'. This blog is closed.
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10.52pm GMT
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10.23pm GMT
China's Hubei province confirms a total of 31,728 cases of Coronavirus and 974 deaths by the end of today, the Reuters news agency reports. That number includes 103 new deaths and 2,097 new cases, according to the report.
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