Workers in protective suits walk past a display board showing the stock market prices in the lobby of the Shanghai Stock Exchange building in Shanghai, on Friday (Feb 14). Asian shares mostly fell as investors turned cautious following a surge in cases of a new virus in China that threatens to crimp economic growth and hurt businesses worldwide. - AP
HONG KONG: Fears over the new coronavirus rattled investors in Asia Friday as they struggled to work out if the China epidemic was worse than being reported by authorities.
A dramatic rise in the number of deaths and new cases of the virus fuelled global suspicions that Beijing may be concealing the true scale of the illness.
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