LONDON (Bloomberg): The coronavirus disease spreading around the world has killed more than 810 people, exceeding the toll from the global outbreak of SARS that started in China almost two decades ago.
Less than two months after surfacing in late December in Wuhan, China, cases of the coronavirus have topped 37,000. The fast-spreading disease long ago eclipsed the 8,100 total cases of SARS, which was transmitted worldwide in eight months, disrupting travel, industry and health care, and killing 774 people before coming under control.
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