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Newshour: 2020/02/09 13:06 GMT: Coronavirus deaths exceed Sars fatalities

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2020/02/09 13:06 GMT

2020/02/09 13:06 GMT: Coronavirus deaths exceed Sars fatalities

BBC World Service - Newshour, Coronavirus deaths exceed Sars fatalities

The number of coronavirus deaths has overtaken that of the Sars epidemic in 2003.

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The coronoavirus outbreak that began in China has now killed more than eight hundred people - surpassing the number killed by SARS nearly twenty years ago.

Also in the programme: Counting begins in Irish general election; and what to watch out at the Oscars.

(Photo: More than 34,000 people have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus. Credit: Getty Images)

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