FILE PHOTO: A worker in a protective suit examines specimens inside a laboratory following an outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, Hubei province, China February 6, 2020. Picture taken February 6, 2020. China Daily via REUTERS
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – The number of deaths in China’s central Hubei province from a coronavirus outbreak had risen by 81 to 780 as of Saturday, the province’s health commission said on Sunday morning, taking the global count past that of the SARS epidemic in 2002/2003.
The number of people who died from SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, reached 774.
A further 2,147 cases have been detected in Hubei, the epicenter of the outbreak, the provincial health commission said in a statement on its website, taking the total in the province to 27,100.
Reporting by Winni Zhou and Dominique Patton; Editing by Richard Chang and Daniel Wallis
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