Keeping safe: Children wearing protective masks in Mandaluyong, east of Manila. — AP
MANILA: The Philippines has become the first country besides China to record its first death due to the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
The Department of Health (DOH) yesterday confirmed a second case of the virus in the Philippines – a Chinese national who died on Saturday at a hospital in metro Manila.
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