China's crisis wanes as epidemic takes hold in US, elsewhere

Mar 03, 20200

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Passengers arriving from Italy at Vnukovo International Airport in Moscow, RUssia on March 2, 2020. A Russian citizen who returned from Italy on Feb. 23, 2020, has been diagnosed with coronavirus.

BEIJING - China's coronavirus caseload continued to wane Tuesday even as the epidemic took a firmer hold beyond Asia, with three countries now exceeding 1,000 cases and the U.S. reporting its sixth death.

The health ministry announced just 125 new cases detected over the past 24 hours, China's lowest number since Jan. 20. Another 31 deaths were reported, all of them in the hardest-hit province of Hubei. The figures bring China's total number of cases to 80,151 with 2,943 deaths.

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