HONG KONG: Hospital officials in Hong Kong raised their alert level to "serious" on Sunday (Jan 5) as a mystery viral pneumonia outbreak in mainland China continued to spread.
The infection was first reported on December 24 in Wuhan, a central Chinese city with a population of over 11 million -- leading to online speculation about a resurgence of the flu-like SARS virus that killed hundreds of people in 2002-2003.
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