Students from the Dominican Republic (from left)Jessica Santos, Melissa Santos and Misael Soriano speaking during a interview with AFP about the possibility of being evacuated from Wuhan on January 26, 2020. - AFP
WUHAN, China (AFP): The United States and other nations raced to get their citizens out of the locked-down Chinese city at ground-zero of a virus epidemic on Tuesday (Jan 28), as the death toll surged to 106 and the number of confirmed infections doubled to over 4,500.
The deadly virus, which experts believe emanated from a wild animal market in the city of Wuhan last month, has triggered a desperate Chinese containment effort after spreading nationwide and to more than a dozen other countries.
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