A nurse takes notes in the isolation ward for 2019-nCoV patients at a hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Feb 6. - AP
NEW YORK (Agencies): A US citizen has died from the new coronavirus at the epicentre of the epidemic in China, the US embassy said on Saturday (Feb 8), in what appeared to be the first confirmed foreign death from the outbreak.
“We can confirm that a 60-year-old US citizen diagnosed with coronavirus died at a hospital in Wuhan, China, on Feb 6,” an embassy spokesman told AFP, without specifying the person’s gender.
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