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HONG KONG: Hong Kong announced it was closing all but two land crossings with the Chinese mainland on Monday (feb 3) to slow the spread of a deadly new coronavirus as medics staged strikes calling for the border to be completely sealed.
The semi-autonomous financial centre has 15 confirmed cases of the disease, most brought from the mainland where the epidemic began and has so far killed more than 360 people.
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