The number of new cases from China's coronavirus epidemic dropped for a third consecutive day yesterday, as an official claimed the strict restrictions that Beijing imposed on affected regions were beginning to show results.
Taiwan yesterday reported its first coronavirus death, the fifth fatality outside mainland China. Taiwan Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said during a news conference that the deceased person was a 61-year-old man who had diabetes and hepatitis B. Taiwan has to date accumulated 20 confirmed cases.
The coronavirus, thought to have emerged at a wildlife market in the central Chinese province of Hubei, has presented the ruling Communist Party with the huge challenge of stamping it out while at the same time minimising damage to the world's second-largest economy.
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